Viewpoint: Screening embryos for diseases—slippery slope and the advantages of being rich

[D]espite [Noor] Siddiqui’s efforts to cast herself as a modern-day Jonas Salk, [Orchid Health genetic screening services are] not a service available to “everyone’s” babies—since the testing alone costs thousands of dollars in addition to the price of IVF and is thus out of reach for most Americans. 

Reproduction as quality control has a long and dark history, but the enthusiasm around new repro-tech companies suggests younger generations have never learned it. Younger Americans have spent their lives saturated in technologically mediated worlds that promise seemingly limitless on-demand options.

[T]he deception promulgated by the new eugenicists is that they care only for the health and safety of all children, when in fact they are trying to design “better children” for those who can afford them. And they deem irresponsible those who cannot—and those who react appropriately and viscerally with nauseated horror to a new world that is the very opposite of brave.

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