# Is there any defensible value to "eugenics" in this day and age? **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [May 30, 2012, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-defensible-value-to-eugenics-in-this-day-and-age/623496 "2012-05-30T00:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![Farmer\_Jane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Farmer\_Jane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Farmer_Jane)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2012, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-defensible-value-to-eugenics-in-this-day-and-age/623496/6 "2012-05-30T02:51:15Z")
This was one of my very first topics on the Dope. I don’t know if it is bad form to quote myself from a year ago, but I shall: > [@American Eugenics Movement and Euro Nazism](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-eugenics-movement-and-euro-nazism/578759/6): > > What about government sponsored [IVF treatments](http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/article458210.ece)? > [Designer babies](http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/designerdebate/)? [Deaf](http://www.geneticsandsociety.org/article.php?id=3860) designer babies? > [Selective abortion](http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/09/us/09down.html?_r=1&em&ex=1178942400&en=e6910805b7eb9afe&ei=5087%0A)? (Aborting fetuses with Down’s, for example?) > Restricting marriage between two [cognitively disabled](http://www.slate.com/id/1007972/) people? > [Surgically castrating](http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/11/world/europe/11castrate.html)sex offenders? > [Human cloning](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_cloning)? > [Stem cell research](http://articles.sfgate.com/2005-10-24/news/17393486_1_cell-research-eugenics-stem)? > > And, less seriously: [Animal breeding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_breeding)? > Science can be a bitch. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-there-any-defensible-value-to-eugenics-in-this-day-and-age/623496)._