Eugenics

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Engineering our way to a eugenic future

Philippa Taylor | 12 April 2013 |

tags: bioethics, eugenics, UK

The UK fertility regulator has proposed a "minor" procedure with momentous consequences which is legal nowhere else in the world.

The New Eugenics

Michael Cook | 14 December 2012 |

tags: eugenics, evolution, genetics

Some scientists are haunted by the idea of genetic degeneracy.

Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion

Angela Franks | 17 January 2012 |

tags: books, eugenics, population control, Public Discourse

A new biography of Margaret Sanger fails to confront the Planned Parenthood founder’s ideological commitment to eugenics and population control.

Eugenics and the Firewall

| 04 October 2011 |

tags: Canada, eugenics

Is science always a good thing? Anti-science always a bad one? A walk into a century ago might shed some light.

The challenge of imperfection

Bill Muehlenberg | 22 July 2010 |

tags: Down syndrome, eugenics, World Cup

Why are we exterminating Down syndrome children if they can bring so much joy?

The disappearing disabled

Mark Mostert | 25 February 2010 |

tags: disabilities, eugenics, genetics

Dread genetic diseases are disappearing -- because parents and doctors are eliminating the children who have them. 

Pre-natal diagnostic techniques pave the way to eugenics

Manuel and Sophia Corpas | 18 November 2009 |

tags: eugenics, genetics, prenatal tests

Ever-more sophisticated technology allows us to detect ever more genetic anomalies. What will we do with this knowledge?

Towards a coercive utopia

Bill Muehlenberg | 19 November 2008 |

tags: eugenics, Julian Savulescu

Some contemporary ethicists are updating eugenics.

Time to throw in the towel

Michael Cook | 08 September 2008 |

tags: eugenics, human enhancement, Julian Savulescu

The ideas of a well-established bioethicist are so weird that it makes one despair of bioethics itself.