Month: September 2022

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

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

2,000 PRE-IMPLANTATION GENETIC DIAGNOSIS BIRTHS. "First developed in 1989, PGD is not yet a widely used procedure. Approximately 2,000 children have been born using the technique, which is available in roughly fifty centers worldwide, most of them in the United States." http://lnkd.in/da2UiFh View in LinkedIn

THE UGLY SHADOW OF EUGENICS skews rational discussions about human reproductive choices, be it artificial insemination, skewing the characteristics of the offspring, or further afield in the murky territory of cloning humans. The eugenics scar on human history is deep and nasty, as we will see. View in LinkedIn

EUGENICS, "the study of or belief in the possibility of improving the qualities of the human species ... especially by such means as discouraging reproduction by persons having genetic defects or presumed to have inheritable undesirable traits (negative eugenics) or encouraging reproduction ... (positive eugenics)." http://lnkd.in/dqBkw_6 View in LinkedIn

VICTORIAN PET EUGENICS. "Just 100 short years ago, 88% of the current breeds of dog available today did not exist. Today, there are over 500 breeds of dog in existence, with new hybrids and designer pooches available every few years. In just a few short generations and breeding cycles, humans are now able to breed the perfect dog to suit their needs." http://lnkd.in/duWGwdq View in LinkedIn

LIVESTOCK EUGENICS MODEL FOR HUMANS. "Domestic plants and animals were also the obvious model systems for early studies in experimental evolution and genetics. When the Eugenics Record Office was founded at Cold Spring Harbor in 1910, the adjacent Station for Experimental Evolution looked to all the world like a farm." http://www.eugenicsarchive.org/eugenics/topics_fs.pl?theme=28 View in LinkedIn

HUMAN EUGENICS STARTED EARLY. "American William Goodell (lived from 1829 to 1894) advocated castration and spaying of the insane. Mortality rates from "Battey's operation", the surgical removal of healthy ovaries, was as high as one in five deaths at the time, but the surgery kept being performed." http://lnkd.in/dMhgNqm View in LinkedIn

FORCED STERILIZATIONS. "Eugenic policies were first implemented in the early 1900s in the United States. Later, in the 1920s and 30s, the eugenic policy of sterilizing certain mental patients was implemented in other countries, including Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Japan, and Sweden." http://lnkd.in/dMhgNqm View in LinkedIn

THE NAZI EUGENICS PROGRAM. "Those humans were targeted who were identified as "life unworthy of life" ... including but not limited to the criminal, degenerate, dissident, feeble-minded, homosexual, idle, insane, and the weak, for elimination from the chain of heredity." http://lnkd.in/dJECGiX View in LinkedIn