Prenatal Screening Leading to Designer Children
June 2, 2005

by Bill Wilson,
Washington, D.C. correspondent

Tests in the womb are being used to determine which children will live. Pre-natal screening is now being used to effectively bring about designer children by aborting the pre-born who don't measure up to a doctor's or parents' standards.

George Neumayr is executive editor of The American Spectator magazine, which is blowing the whistle on the disturbing trend.

"Medical researchers," he said, "are estimating that over 80 percent of unborn children prenatally diagnosed as having Down syndrome are aborted." Andy Imparato, president of the American Association of People with Disabilities said the next step is designer babies.

" 'Enlightened scientists,' in the name of science and reason can be so brutally discriminatory against people that they see as defective," he said. "And so you have this history in the U.S. that plays very much into Hitler and Nazi Germany." According to Neumayr, Pre-natal screening can be the pre-born's worst enemy.

"And as pre-natal screening identifies more and more conditions," he said, "it will become the preeminent eugenic tool against those deemed unfit for life."

Imparato said the problem worsens when science and ethics clash. "My concern," he said, "is that the science is moving forward a lot faster than our capacity as a society to process the science."

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