CHICAGO, May 12 (Lifesitenews.com) – Genetically screening tiny human babies within weeks of their conception in a test tube, killing those who are presumed to carry unwanted genes is now being hailed as a great advancement in medicine. Screening for devastating disorders has now devolved to searching out and destroying babies with relatively mild ailments such as sickle cell disease.
The May 12 Journal of the American Medical Association reports on the first supposedly successful screening out of babies carrying sickle cell disease, noting that a couple using the procedure bore non-sickle cell twins.
Sickle cell disease can cause patients fatigue, headaches, organ damage, seizures and strokes and increased risk of infections. The Associated Press reports that a Dr. Oswaldo Castro, a sickle cell specialist is against the genetic screening since, “as I treat a lot of patients with sickle cell, it’s difficult for me to put a judgment, ‘well, this one should never have been born.” However the lead researcher in the screening study Dr. Zev Rosenwaks claims that “up to now, couples who had affected fetuses could only deal with it by having an induced abortion.”