Pushing the Bioethics Envelope to Serve Neo-Eugenic Purposes

February 25, 2011

Professor Julian Savulescu, the Uehiro Professor of Practical Ethics at the University of Oxford, was just in the news again, thanks to an article in the Melbourne Herald Sun titled “Only breed smart babies: Ethicist.” The responses, from various corners of the web, were mostly unfavorable. (The snarkiest was a thread titled “Only breed superior ‘designer babies’: Psychotic Eugenicist.”) (CGS)