| Content of slogan editorial: | Genetically speaking, people will want to improve their future children, once medical techniques are sufficiently developed.
This parental care is a healthy pursuit that is already genetically embedded in many life forms -especially in mammals- after millions of years of evolution.
These medical techniques are being deployed more and more, such as embryo selection and in-vitro fertilization (IVF).
We must deal with this trend carefully.
Doctors use these techniques not only against breast cancer or bowel cancer, but also for people who cannot get children in a natural way.
This human desire for improvement is the second major biological mechanism that Charles Darwin identified: besides the mechanism of Natural Selection, there is also the phenomenon of Sexual Selection, which at the present stage of human life, is a very powerful evolutionary process.
This mechanism is also known as "Intrinsic Eugenics".
That implies that man and woman select each other because of some attractive properties, which increases the likelihood that those properties will occur more in their offspring.
This is a fundamental basic right of people to decide for themselves with whom they will reproduce in a natural -heterosexual- way.
It is important that future man and woman can continue to be able to reproduce in a natural way without artificial aids.
In the distant future, women must also continue to give birth easily to children without pain by, for example, a narrowed childbearing canal.
Love between husband and wife must remain the creative force which ensures healthy children.
Embryo selection and IVF should be deployed wisely, so that people of the future remain healthy in the sense that they must be able to continue reproducing in a normal physical manner.
And eventually -with the increasing human overpopulation on the horizon- the most powerful, intelligent, tough, beautiful or communicative people etc. will survive best in the ever hardening struggle for Life.
Doctors, politicians and democratic voters: in your hands lies the fate of mankind.
© CPER 2008 | |
