RHETOR 109 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Designer Baby, Fetus, Cas9
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Facility now psychiatric hospital and maximum security prison. No faculty from the facility itself featured. This facility and other killing centers hidden in history. Plaque not for the disabled people killed, but for the overflow of prisoners from concentration camps killed there: issue of memorialization and remembrance. 3rd reich scientists had studied in the u. s. Is eugenics in the modern day genetic testing and reproductive selection (in vitro, sex selection: negative eugenics (limiting) vs. positive eugenics (voluntary) Under thompson"s definition, healthcare practices like encouraging pregnant women to take folic acid to protect the baby are eugenics. Argument is strong because these practices strive toward the ideal body . White rich people get access: on the other hand, fertility clinics are relatively easy to access. Modern practices are voluntary : but people may have been shaped by the society to think of the ideal body. Perhaps question is not what is eugenics, but is whether eugenics is good or body.
