Whose life is it, anyway?

Trait selection in babies "is a service," says Dr. Steinberg. "We intend to offer it soon."

Whoops, someone noticed that some of this reproductive technology stuff might not be ethical.

Talk about controlling parents!

Eugenics is a done deal. The cat's out of the bag. There's no going back. (Don't think about the 14th Amendment that overturned Dred Scot and took the slaves from their "owners.")


Of course, the "Progressives" and human-plus groups only commit *good* eugenics. All they want is control and more money.


The "Progressives" started raising the alarm a couple of years ago, when they were pushing for a change in the Bush embryonic stem cell policy. The logic was that the reason there is no regulation is that the government isn't paying for enough research.

At the same meetings, they were adamant that their group must have the power maintain control. (Alta Charo, Laurie Zoloth, Jonathan Moreno, Insoo Hyun and the rest of the "Ethicists for Hire" crowd.)

Funny, in all these links, I didn't find a single comment about the doctors who lost a discrimination suit in California for refusing to fulfill a patient's request for IVF -- even in the midst of the hulabaloo about the mother of octuplets.

HT to Vox Popoli

US behind on regulation of reproductive technology

After hearing/reading for the last 8 years that there is too much regulation of research, there's now a call from the Jonathan Moreno and the "Progressives"(at the website that grew out the Center for American Progress, originally founded by John Podesta, Obama's advisor) for regulation of reproductive technology. See this post at the "Science Progress" blog.

Scroll down to the middle of the blog post on regulation to see a fantastic interactive map of regulation across the world.

Unfortunately, the regulation may not be easy to come by, or what those of us who are pro-life might wish for. The progressives mock those of us who believe that even embryonic humans have the right not to be intentionally killed or enslaved. See the comments in this review of Yuval Levine's book, Imagining the Future.