The Pros And Cons Of Modern Eugenics

So in order to allow freedom of choice, from a liberal perspective, these differences among people’s opinion should be respected in order to avoid mistakes of the past where authoritarian leaders of the old Eugenics movement dictated which traits/race were favored. Allowing individuals to have a freedom of choice, according to Agar, it motivates individuals to adopt a pluralistic view and not a monistic view of human excellence. As a consequence, “an evil doctrine” is being altered into a morally acceptable one. In other words, with liberal Eugenics everyone is free to follow their personal conception of human excellence without being dictated by an authoritarian figure like in past movements. But if this liberal core was followed and one day …show more content…
Psychologically, this could be detrimental for people with disabilities. Some scientist, such as Buchanan and colleagues, have gone as far as arguing that disability should not be protected by human rights because it is unlike sex and race; hence, they should not be protected from discriminatory treatment. These beliefs emphasized that the eugenic polices established in the 1920’s still have not been completely eradicated because discrimination against those thought to be inferior is still prevalent by leaders of the modern Eugenics movement. It is tragic to see that some scientists haven’t moved on from discriminating …show more content…
We currently have taken the right step with these policies, such as with the Disabilities Act of 1992 that was signed into a national law and is our duty as humans to continue to enforce it and develop it further on. So for this movement to continue to advance and prosper in modern area, it must follow all the standards and ethics established within the system. No violation should be permitted even if the finding is revolutionary. Especially in prenatal counseling where life’s can easily be terminated. Moreover, it is clearly evident that the Eugenics movement that began in the 20th century is undergoing a remarkable transformation in the 21th century, however, the new advocates of this movement should consider the history of Eugenics in order to avoid committing the same mistakes as their predecessors. Hence, instead of trying to eradicate the Nazi atrocities and compulsory sterilization laws that were created in the name of Eugenics from the memory of humankind, these actions and legislations should be analyzed completely in order understand what led us to that path in the first place. By integrating and taking the history of science, medicine and political ideologies into account is how the relationship between race, eugenics, and science will be