Superior people - recruitment of egg donors with excellent qualities

Commonweal, March 26, 1999

Advocates for untrammeled "reproductive freedom" argue that genetic information and the spread of private eugenic practices will not threaten the dignity of those who may be regarded as mentally or physically "inferior." That judgment seems naive at best, if not disingenuous. We are just beginning to feel the subtly corrosive effects that eugenic abortion and genetic screening have on our ideas about the value of children and human life, the meaning of sex and procreation, and the nature of the family.

Yet already our children need only open their college newspapers to see how the new classes of human superiority and inferiority are taking shape.

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