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> screening pregnant women for downs syndrome That’s not related to eugenics.
by bad_user 8y ago
> screening pregnant women for downs syndrome
That’s not related to eugenics.
- thaumasiotes 8y agoDetecting and aborting low-quality babies isn't related to eugenics?
- Retric 8y agoFirst detecting often does not result in abortion, let alone mandatory abortion or sterilization by the state. Eugenics also generally focused on sterilization vs termination, with a focus on long term changes in the human population. And sterilization is only relevant for people likely to reproduce so the elderly and people with Down syndrome are irrelevant from a eugenics standpoint. Finally, small scale things like prescreening sperm donors is not going to make a meaningful difference to the overall population. For eugenics to have a meaningful impact the idea was to manage the overall population at scale. It’s a more insidious idea than often portrayed in a modern context because the original idea has become anathema.
- sifoobar 8y agoLow-quality babies? Wow. Because they don't meet your standards? They're human babies, and there is no such thing as a low quality human; though people like you sure come close enough.
- larkost 8y agoNo, that is exactly eugenics. It is removing an unwanted part of the (potential) population. I happen to think it is a really good idea, but it does solidly fall under the term eugenics.