If you had the chance to change your child’s genes, would you? Is that Eugenics?
Those are the questions we debate today! Gene editing has come to the point that we can choose almost any feature we like for our unborn children. As usual, science has run far ahead leaving important ethical questions behind. Jurassic Park have been onto something...
References and Further Reading
- https://pged.org/history-eugenics-and-genetics/
- https://www.nature.com/scitable/forums/genetics-generation/america-s-hidden-history-the-eugenics-movement-123919444/
- https://www.history.com/topics/germany/eugenics
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1127045/
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