Selective Reduction: The Most Popular Procedure You've Probably Never Heard Of
God forbid we should have kids with cosmetic flaws. I have said it before, but these practices sound as if they're right out of Hitler's Nazi playbook.[Dan] Neil and his wife aborted two boy fetuses in order to increase the chances for two healthy girls. All of this resulted from an IVF procedure and the option of "selective reduction" that is urged upon parents by many doctors.
As Neil explains, "We don't feel guilty. We don't feel ashamed. We're not even really sad, because terminating these fetuses -- at 15 weeks' gestation -- was a medical imperative."
That is a redefinition of "imperative," and the claim completely side-steps the moral responsibility of using a technology that is almost certain to present this awful choice. Furthermore, Neil and his wife used advanced diagnostic testing to determine which fetuses to abort.
Added to all this, Tom Strode of Baptist Press reports that the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority in Britain has allowed human embryos to be tested for eye squint. As Strode explains, "The news marked an ominous milestone -– supposedly the first embryo screening for a cosmetic flaw."
As for selective reduction, I guess I'll never understand the widespread acceptance of so many IVF procedures...regardless of the payoff. The price is just too high.
Read this important Mohler article here.
Note: I have written several opinions on the subject of IVF in past posts (as well as many on the subject of abortion). To read them, type "IVF" in the search engine at the top of this page.
Labels: abortion, David C. Price, ethics, infanticide, IVF, morals, Parenting
posted by DAVID C. PRICE at 5/15/2007 11:45:00 PM
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A medical necessity? WTF? Oh, wow have we forgotten just how valuable life really is.
PS 'F' stands for flizz...
The age of eugenics has indeed arrived.
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