China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions

Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions by thriftwy on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:29PM (#15041202)

Actually you can't mark Down syndrome elimination as eugenics, because Down syndrome sufferers are infertile (I guess) and thus unable to contribute in "-genics" either way.

I would say, Down syndrome elimination is anti-eugenics, because people with genetic predisposition for Down syndrome will provide more non-Down offspring.

Anyway, I've never seen any discussion about eugenics, except "the Bogeyman did it!" Eugenics aversion is something forced on the society from above.

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Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions by sp332 on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:31PM (#15041228)

Don't try to make your ignorance my problem. Go do some research. There's plenty of discussion out there, I promise.

Edit: I'm just going to leave you this because of your bogeyman comment. This is my hometown around the time my father was born. It's not about bogeymen. https://www.uvm.edu/~lkaelber/eugenics/NH/NH.html You're in your own for the rest though.

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Re:China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions by thriftwy on Thursday August 17, 2017 @05:36PM (#15041264)

I've never saw anybody asking for my opinion on eugenics. So there's probably just a lot of echo-chamber monologues.

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