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Designer Babies – Soon To Be The Norm In Reproductive Healthcare
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Designer Babies – Soon To Be The Norm In Reproductive Healthcare

When human desires and wants are quantified as unalienable rights, then, ethics and morals become easily compromised, and a disaster often awaits. Designer babies will soon be the norm in reproductive healthcare, a reflection of desire passed off as an individual right. Soon, a couple will be able to walk in a reproductive healthcare facility and select all the features that they would prefer their child to have or not have. If permitted from clinical trials to practical applications, couples will have the freedom and right, depending on affordability, to decide the features that their child will have, in the process creating a child that they want. Therefore, based on their preference, a couple can decide to have a child with green eyes, less chances of becoming obese, high probabilit...
Britney Spears Lost Her Reproductive Freedom, Tragically Her Case Is Not Unique
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Britney Spears Lost Her Reproductive Freedom, Tragically Her Case Is Not Unique

From the founding of this nation through the modern day, women and members of marginalized communities have faced forced sterilization and other reproductive coercion. Jennifer Gerson, Barbara Rodriguez Originally published by The 19th When Britney Spears revealed on Wednesday that being under conservatorship had denied her the right to have her IUD removed and have another child, her words set off shockwaves of horrified disbelief. “I deserve to have the same rights as anybody does, by having a child, a family, any of those things, and more so,” Spears said in Wednesday’s testimony to the judge. But reproductive coercion is hardly unique to Spears: It’s a systemic component of an American system, both legal and cultural, that disproportionately impacts women and marginalized commun...