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Is it possible to stop people with disabilities from reproducing— thus, easing them into extinction?
Many genetic abnormalities are due to recessive genes that only affect children who inherit two copies of the gene. Affected people are often severely ill and probably won’t have children anyway. So, sterilizing them doesn’t do any good. You could still claim that preventing people with abnormalitieRead more
Many genetic abnormalities are due to recessive genes that only affect children who inherit two copies of the gene. Affected people are often severely ill and probably won’t have children anyway. So, sterilizing them doesn’t do any good. You could still claim that preventing people with abnormalities from having children would be helpful, but most chromosomal abnormalities either prevent people from having children or aren’t transmitted to the next generation.
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