Taking the Intimacy Out of Family Creation

The intellectual class drives our public policy discussions. Perhaps that is why there is such a push for eugenics in reproduction.

The latest example comes from Stanford bioethicist Hank Greely, writing in The Guardian. Greely enthusiastically predicts that future children will routinely come into being in the lab rather the bedroom. Better, from his utilitarian perspective, parents will quality-control their children -- discarding embryos deemed of lesser eugenic value.

From "Who Needs Sex...