Lack of eugenic measures

In the absence of eugenic measures, persons suffering serious hereditary diseases, with a high risk of transmitting them to their children, are not discouraged from having children.

1. Genetic counselling procedures would not be effective in the case of persons suffering from high-grade mental retardation which is of special importance due to its frequency, and some form of enforcement may be required.

1. Eugenic measures will never cause hereditary diseases or disabilities to disappear completely. Spontaneous mutations, the coming together of heterozygous carriers of recessive conditions, and other factors will always bring about new cases.

1. Lack of control

1. Underestimation of human potential
2. Impropriety
3. Human contingency
4. Genetic defects and diseases
5. Foetal malformation in diabetic pregnancies
6. Decline in human genetic endowment

1. Unlimited practice of human embryo storage
2. Eugenics
3. Discriminatory scientific language

1. Induced abortion
2. Forced motherhood
3. Discriminatory preferences in organ transplants

1. Social evolutionism
2. Mutation

1. Using gene therapy
2. Reducing discrimination against eugenics
3. Providing sufficient eugenic measures
4. Providing genetic counselling
5. Intervening in human evolution
6. Abstaining from eugenic measures

1. Intervention
2. Discrimination [D]
3. Insufficiency
4. Lack