Genetic knowledge to produce children
Since Hitler’s early attempt by selective breeding to produce children with certain characteristics.
The science of Infertility has developed beyond belief in the last 20 years. …
How do you react to this new branch of genetic knowledge to produce children?
Is there any real difference between this science today and what Hitler’s Leibensporn experiment tried to accomplish to produce a master race?
Do people have a right to have children?
What does Judeo-Christian Tradition teach? Discuss
Genetic knowledge to produce children
Selective breeding involves choosing parents with particular characteristics to breed together and produce offspring with more desirable characteristics. Humans have selectively bred plants and animals for thousands of years. Selective breeding aims to adapt an organism`s characteristics in a way that is desirable to the humans that breed them. Selective breeding takes one characteristic and breeds based on that selection. This means that other characteristics are lost and the resulting population is very similar. With less genetic diversity, they can all become sick together or all fall victim to an environmental influence that affects their health. In a normal population, there are always many individuals different enough that they don’t catch the illness or are not susceptible to the same environmental factors. A population developed through selective breeding can therefore be completely wiped out.
