"Previous ages regarded the creation of orphans as cruel..."

"Previous ages regarded the creation of orphans as cruel...": "

"...; this one considers it enlightened." That is from an excellent and scathing column, "Three Humans and an Embryo," by George Neumayr, editor of Catholic World Report. Here's the beginning:

 Modern society, at the level of rhetoric, loves children "unconditionally." But at the level of reality, its indifference to them borders on the surreal. Society increasingly places bald conditions upon loving them: Are they wanted? Are they perfect? If not, abort them; if not, re-design them.

The post-Roe slogan "Every child a wanted child" had a eugenic frost on it, but now the slogan might as well be updated and made even more explicit to read: "Every child a perfect child." Few people seem to care or notice, but society is passing through a brutally eugenic period of history.

The latest news from Britain -- that scientists and couples in pursuit of disease-free children have developed an in vitro fertilization technique to produce "three parent kids" -- will probably generate yawns. It will be seen as just one more impossible-to-referee "ethical dilemma" teed up by an indifferent media to wash over the masses before they click to the next channel.

Read the entire column on the American Spectator site.

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