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January 12, 2007
Designing Defective Babies
Posted by Dave Blount at January 12, 2007 9:07 AM
Stem cell research isn't the only moral grotesquery new technology has enabled. In a recent survey, fertility clinics admit that they've helped families have babies deliberately engineered to have a disability or deformity.
University of Minnesota "bioethicist" Jeffrey Kahn explains:
I think there are good, thoughtful reasons why people who are deaf or...dwarves could say, "I want a child like me." ...If people in a shared culture all have the common clinical defect, then it's maybe not a defect in the traditional sense.
Multiculturalism has been extended to birth defects, with the same depraved results it produces everywhere else.
Struggling to overcome disabilities is noble; taking perverse pride in them is not. Inflicting them on others — whether out of some misguided notion of "culture" or envious resentment of the healthy — is pure moonbattery.
