Cloning and the new eugenics

Human Life Review | January 1, 2002| | Copyright

It's ba-aack.

Eugenics, the ideology that seeks to improve humankind by manipulating our collective gene pool, is making a comeback. Not only is this pernicious utopianism regaining respectability, but with the advent of computers and recent breakthroughs in bioscience, a "new eugenics" would be far more robust and effective than the "old eugenics" ever was.

Eugenics originated with the English mathematician and statistician, Francis Galton. A cousin of Charles Darwin, Galton believed that heredity governed human talent and character just as it does eye coloration and facial features. In ...

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