Comments on: Baby Gene Chop Shopping http://www.belch.com/blog/2006/12/28/baby-gene-chop-shopping/ I can't believe that came from your mouth! Thu, 04 Dec 2008 00:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: pat http://www.belch.com/blog/2006/12/28/baby-gene-chop-shopping/#comment-22425 pat Fri, 12 Jan 2007 15:21:42 +0000 http://www.belch.com/~blog/2006/12/28/baby-gene-chop-shopping/#comment-22425 No of course not. My point is that if people begin to engineer children genetically to fit into certain societal categories, it is just as wrong as people engineering children to eliminate those categories altogether. I'm saying that it is a road that we as a society should not go down. I included gay couples with dwarfs and deaf couples because each set of potential parents have expressed desires to raise children to be like them, and homosexuality may have genetic roots. These couples already raise children who are gay, deaf or a dwarf through adoption, and I have no problems with that. But to genetically modify a fetus to fit a certain profile is ethically and morally wrong. In my opinion, it is just as wrong as any law that would mandate genetic screening for pregnant women to remove such fetuses from the gene pool. No of course not. My point is that if people begin to engineer children genetically to fit into certain societal categories, it is just as wrong as people engineering children to eliminate those categories altogether. I’m saying that it is a road that we as a society should not go down.

I included gay couples with dwarfs and deaf couples because each set of potential parents have expressed desires to raise children to be like them, and homosexuality may have genetic roots. These couples already raise children who are gay, deaf or a dwarf through adoption, and I have no problems with that. But to genetically modify a fetus to fit a certain profile is ethically and morally wrong.

In my opinion, it is just as wrong as any law that would mandate genetic screening for pregnant women to remove such fetuses from the gene pool.

]]> By: bazl http://www.belch.com/blog/2006/12/28/baby-gene-chop-shopping/#comment-22415 bazl Fri, 12 Jan 2007 05:29:50 +0000 http://www.belch.com/~blog/2006/12/28/baby-gene-chop-shopping/#comment-22415 So you're equating being gay with being disabled? So you’re equating being gay with being disabled?

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