Posted at Crosswalk.com today:
Pelosi and Population Control: Is Having Children Selfish?
Barbara Curtis,Crosswalk.com Contributor
Population control - and our country's continuing war on children -
got a big boost early this year when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
defended "stimulus" funding with this toxic logic:
"contraception will reduce costs to the states and to the federal government."
Shades of Jonathan Swift! Remember A Modest Proposal -
For Preventing The Children of Poor People in Ireland From Being a
Burden to Their Parents or Country, and For Making Them Beneficial to
The Public? But while Swift's 1729 proposal was satire, Pelosi's was serious stuff.
Hard to believe that this self-described "ardent Catholic" - mother
of 5, grandmother of 6, now third in line to the presidency - could
make such short shrift of the citizenry's children, imperiously
dismissing them as burdens to the state.
But is it really all that shocking to define this population cohort
in such mercenary terms? After all, for 36 years our culture's
worldview has been predicated on the idea of children as a burden to
individual women and their families.
Read entire article here.
Posted at Drudge today:
A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles -- Hold the Colic
Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children
A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it has received "half a dozen" requests for the service, which is based on a
procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD.
While PGD has long been used for the medical purpose of averting life-threatening diseases in children, the science behind it has quietly progressed to the point that it could potentially be used to create designer babies. It isn't clear that Fertility Institutes can
yet deliver on its claims of trait selection. But the growth of PGD, unfettered by any state or federal regulations in the U.S., has accelerated genetic knowledge swiftly enough that pre-selecting cosmetic traits in a baby is no longer the stuff of science fiction.
Read entire article here.
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