Preventing Lesbianism?

[ShawnD1]

Hell, from the 20s-30s, the primary paradigm of Genetics was the eugenics movement--the belief in creating the "perfect human" was then considered the primary goal of genetic medicine and thought. It became the linchpin of Hitler's theory behind the super human, his rationale for eliminating jews and other "undesirables."

Isn't that still our main objective? I have pretty severe blood sugar problems, and I think it would be awesome if doctors found a way to prevent that from being passed on to my kids. I'm also 100% certain I would push for abortion if I knew the baby would be born with severe birth defects.

A huge majority of people feel exactly the same way as me.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_Pare...e-births-drop-us-women-abort/story?id=8960803

An estimated 92 percent of all women who receive a prenatal diagnosis of Down syndrome choose to terminate their pregnancies, according to research reviewed by Dr. Brian Skotko, a pediatric geneticist at Children's Hospital Boston.

I don't really see anything immoral about taking a drug that will prevent your baby from being gay. Ask any gay person what it's like to be gay and you'll get an ear full: discrimination, hate crimes, public shaming, and other bullshit. No reasonable person would want to put their own kid through that. Anyone arguing against a pill that would save so much anguish is just an asshole. That's what it comes down to.

 

[AMDZen]

Makes perfect sense to me. Thats all homosexuality is, a disease.

 

[PricklyPete]

no, no I would not.

 

[Double Trouble]

If you set aside the political hysteria and hyperbole, this is just like any other potential cure for a medical defect. If it also fixes other birth defects like homosexuality etc, that's fine as well. It's up to each parent if that's something they want to do (risking side effects and the like).

 

[zinfamous]

Isn't that still our main objective? I have pretty severe blood sugar problems, and I think it would be awesome if doctors found a way to prevent that from being passed on to my kids. I'm also 100% certain I would push for abortion if I knew the baby would be born with severe birth defects.

A huge majority of people feel exactly the same way as me.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/w_Pare...e-births-drop-us-women-abort/story?id=8960803




I don't really see anything immoral about taking a drug that will prevent your baby from being gay. Ask any gay person what it's like to be gay and you'll get an ear full: discrimination, hate crimes, public shaming, and other bullshit. No reasonable person would want to put their own kid through that. Anyone arguing against a pill that would save so much anguish is just an asshole. That's what it comes down to.

I shouldn't say that there isn't an argument for preventing the gay if possible, because in many ways, that certainly sounds rational. But there you stumble into another ethical dilemma, don't you? I've heard quite a few gay friends and associates that pretty much make the same argument--"why would I choose a life of discrimination?" "In some ways, I wish I weren't gay." etc.

There's no getting around the diciness of this issue...but for me, I tend to think that a world without gay people would be rather boring.

and no, preventing low blood sugar is not eugenics. The concept of Eugenics can't really be separated from the process of selective breeding and while transgenic humans are a near-certain possibility in the future, the more likely approach to this sort of genetic medication would be the "knock-down" approach, rather than knock-out or knock-in--the genomic compliment remains the same, one simply blocks the offending gene's function.

 

[MotF Bane]

As long as they are still bi-curious in college, it is OK with me.

:awe:

 

[TridenT]

I didn't read much into it, but if it prevents my daughter from having absurd amounts of body hair and a deep voice.... I think she'd thank me later.

I doubt within my lifetime people will be more accepting of a lack of gender roles...

 

[polarmystery]

I'd be all for it. Homosexuals may not like it, but I don't think being gay is a choice (ie: some sort of mutation). Homosexuality neither satisfies creationism nor evolutionary based reproduction of the human species, where at least creationism and evolution have that.

Touchy subject, indeed.