Eugenics Gets a Modern Facelift, with Investment from Peter Thiel
A moving image of a smiling, crawling little girl appears on the screen, while a pink bow precariously totters on her head. Above her, big black letters read: “This baby was carefully selected as an embryo.” The subheading states: “Her mother screened for gender and health during I.V.F.”
This is the opening to a controversial op-ed by Anna Louie Sussman recently published in the New York Times: “Should Human Life Be Optimized?”
As the reader scrolls down, wiggling infants at play appear on the screen. An arrow points to a little girl nudging a wooden push toy: “Her parent selected for health.” Another ...
