This week, we have yet another article from The Slate about embryo screening. It looks like this is the next big thing, creating perfect babies, and we are getting ever closer to that goal.
Who would be interested in such a thing? Follow one of the article's links to a May 2007 Times Online piece, scroll down to the seventh paragraph, and you'll find the answer. Just as I suspected: self-hating freaks.
Surprised? Thought it would be cosmetically enhanced, fake-tan-sporting Upper Middle Class types? Oh, I'm sure there are plenty of those who would take advantage of genetic screening, but that's almost expected. The trouble starts when one starts working to eliminate one's own kind. Instead of advocating for those with ocular disorders, this gentleman and his apparently very accepting wife (imagine—she actually married the freak!) have opted to capitulate to the status quo by not bringing into the world as loathsome and hideous a creature as the father apparently is.
I don't mean to pick on this gentleman. I infer from his drastic response (most parents just pray that their kids will be "normal") that he has suffered much in his life because of his appearance. He has suffered enough that he has come to believe that he, and those like him, are pretty worthless. Worthless enough to be destroyed before birth. He should have realized that those individuals who caused him pain are the ones with the problem. It's their thinking that needs to be changed, not the individuals who so offend their sense of aesthetics.
But it's very easy to say that. How many terata, given the opportunity, would not choose to be "normal"?
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