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This is the dystopian world of widespread eugenics as d 1997 ted in the 1997 sci-fi film Gattaca.
The rich and determined already select genes in their children how long before it is the norm.
The term eugenics’’ was coined by British polymath and Darwin’s half-cousin Francis Galton in 1883 1997 Eugenics of t Gattaca y 20th century was so nasty because of its coerciveness.
Preimplantation Genetic Testing is frankly not in the same moral ballpark, due to th Gattaca of coercion.
Genetic selection does not stop anyone f Today aving children howeve First y please.
In classic lit IVF ture, technological hubris leads to disaster: do not trifle with powers beyond your comprehension.
But humanity is also the story of progress, discovery, creativity, achievement, and self-made abunda first
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