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DISEASE ERADICATION BY STEM CELLS. Behind the advocacy of stem cells ... "is this dream of living in a disease-free future," one of the early threads that made up Goethe's own worldview." There are some who feel this is akin to eugenics. http://lnkd.in/dDJiaZE View in LinkedIn

GENETIC TOOLS. "Genetic tests for more than 800 conditions are now available, with more hitting the market every year. For the most part, geneticists, physicians, and scientists are encouraging us to use this new knowledge about ourselves and our potential offspring to guide decisions about marriage and procreation. Why take a chance ... when we can prevent the birth of more “doomed babies”? http://lnkd.in/da2UiFh View in LinkedIn

EMBRYO SCREENING for inherited diseases always provokes the objections of designer babies, which is a shallow code for eugenics. A screening method called karyomapping can screen for genetic defects aneuploidy (abnormal chromosome number) at the same time. It is long overdue to apply the same passion about pathogen disease eradication to genetic disease eradication. http://lnkd.in/dehRnur View in LinkedIn

REPRODUCTIVE GENETICS INSTITUTE (RGI) performs "preimplantation genetic diagnosis,” or PGD ... genetic tests on a single cell (or small group of cells) removed from an early-stage human embryo produced using IVF ... physicians can determine if an embryo is “genetically compromised,” as well as other genetic characteristics like sex." http://lnkd.in/da2UiFh View in LinkedIn

DISEASE ERADICATION has been embraced by many groups for ridding the world of the scourges of infectious and parasitic diseases, and enormous progress has been made in this sector. However, eradication of genetic diseases, not caused by a pathogen, has had a more difficult road. http://lnkd.in/dn3GJHR View in LinkedIn

UVF AND EUGENICS. "Edwards himself hinted at the link between IVF and eugenics when ... saying that developing IVF "was about more than infertility ... I wanted to find out exactly who was in charge, whether it was god himself or whether it was scientists in the laboratory." Edwards’s conclusion?—"It was us." http://lnkd.in/dmvAZ93 View in LinkedIn

ROBERT G EDWARDS, inventor of IVF that led to the first test tube baby in 1978, and Nobel winner for the work, was an active member of Britain's Eugenics Society. "Taking their cue from livestock breeders, eugenicists argued that socially disadvantageous characteristics could be bred out of human populations." http://lnkd.in/dmvAZ93 View in LinkedIn

RECENT CALIFORNIA PRISON STERILIZATIONS. "A prison doctor investigated by the California medical board after ordering tubal ligations without state approval is responsible for hundreds of other inmate sterilizations, The Center for Investigative Reporting has found." 132 tubal legations took place 2006-2010. http://lnkd.in/dbmqPud View in LinkedIn

NORTH CAROLINA EUGENICS VICTIMS. "North Carolina forcibly sterilized about 7,600 people whom the state deemed feeble-minded or otherwise undesirable between 1929 and 1974. Last year, the General Assembly set aside $10 million to compensate victims with one-time payments." http://lnkd.in/d4yDhjQ View in LinkedIn

PLANNED PARENTHOOD AND EUGENICS. "Perhaps the most notorious eugenicist of [the 1920s eugenics era was] Margaret Sanger, the founder of Planned Parenthood, who called the “undesirable and unfit” human weeds, and urged their being weeded out of the human race." http://lnkd.in/d6bjrwN View in LinkedIn