Tossing out 'imperfect' humans

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Tossing out 'imperfect' humans

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow - 11/5/2008 8:50:00 AM

A recent report says testing embryos in a Petri dish before implanting them in the mother could prevent the formation of potentially unhealthy children in the womb. One former professor contends this could be "playing God."

 

Experts speaking at the National Press Club recently described a new procedure that allows researchers to test embryos developed in the lab and toss out the ones who have the potential for a handicap, utilizing only visibly healthy ones for implantation. Geneticist Sherri Bale tells CNSNews.com that "pre-implantation" screening is performed by fertilizing an egg in a Petri dish, screening the embryos, and eliminating the ones with evidence for potential genetic disorders.
 
Dr. David Prentice with Family Research Council disagrees with this interference in God's creative process. "It's just astounding to me that people have this mindset that some human beings are imperfect and that because they don't measure up, they've got to eliminate them," he says. "I mean that's what we're really talking about here -- and it obviously brings up that term eugenics."
 
He points out those with a genetic predisposition will be destroyed in the lab, even though with birth into this world, they might not even develop the perceived medical problem. "You're not at the point where you're going to construct that designer baby at this stage of the game, but we're heading in that direction. And at this point it's simply [that] we're going to weed out those who are considered less than perfect and don't meet the grade," Prentice contends.
 
Prentice believes scientists are on a slippery slope to manufacture children instead of bringing them into the world out of a sense of love.

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Nov. 5, 2008 at 8:20 PM

thanks