{"id":191239,"date":"2018-11-16T14:19:41","date_gmt":"2018-11-16T20:19:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=191239"},"modified":"2018-11-19T15:17:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T21:17:58","slug":"ivf-eliminate-embryos-intelligence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/ivf-eliminate-embryos-intelligence\/","title":{"rendered":"Prenatal testing could lead to killing embryos with ‘below average’ IQs"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The UK’s Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (SPUC) notes in a recent article<\/a> that IVF genetic screening continues to edge closer and closer to the “slippery slope” of creating designer babies.<\/p>\n

“It could soon be possible to choose children based on likely IQ level, while destroying others who fail to ‘qualify,'” claims the group’s article regarding new testing from New Jersey-based company, Genomic Prediction. SPUC writes (emphasis added):<\/p>\n

While such a test can’t predict IQ for each embryo, it can, apparently, indicate certain genetic outliers, allowing parents to avoid embryos with a high chance of an IQ 25 points below average. While the company says it will only offer screening based on intelligence for cases of “mental disability”, co-founder Stephen Hsu claims the technique could be used to identify embryos with a likelihood of having a high IQ. “I think people are going to demand that,” he said. “If we don\u2019t do it, some other company will.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n