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18. James LeFanu, “Geneticists Are Not Gods,”
Tablet
, December 12, 1998,
1645-1646.
19. Ibid.
20. A bit reminiscent of Julia, the young female sexual revolutionary, in
George Orwell's 1984. She is, of course, defeated and comes to love Big
Brother.
21. Hans S. Reinders,
The Future of the Disabled in Liberal Society: An Ethical
Analysis
(Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2000).
22. Please note that I do not want in any way to diminish the difficulties involved
in parenting a child with disabilities. As the mother of an adult daughter with
mental retardation, I understand this very well. Instead, I am trying to capture
the present temperament that dictates that such births are calamitous and ought
never to occur.
23. “Search and Destroy Missions,”
U.S. Catholic Conference
, January 2000,
16.
24. Jeannie Hannemann, cited in ibid.
25. Stephen S. Hall, “The Recycled Generation,”
New York Times Magazine
,
January 30, 2000, 32.
26. Ibid.
27. But who defines excess? This is a squishy, soft criterion that comes into play
at present for such “abnormalities” as a cleft palate.
28. Robert Sinsheimer, quoted from the
Journal of Engineering and Science
, in
Shattuck,
Forbidden Knowledge
, 193-194. The literature of reportage, enthusi-
asm, concern, and so forth is nearly out of control. A few magazine and news-
paper pieces worth reading include: Jim Yardley, “Investigators Say Embryologist
Knew He Erred in Egg Mix-Up,”
New York Times
, April 17, 1999, A13; Martin
Lupton, “Test-Tube Questions,”
Tablet
, February 20, 1999, 259-260; David L.
Marcus, “Mothers with Another's Eggs,”
U.S. News and World Report
, April
13, 1999, 42-44; Nicholas Wade, “Panel Told of Vast Benefits of Embryo Cells,”
New York Times
, December 3, 1998, A24; Anne Taylor Fleming, “Why I Can't
Use Someone Else's Eggs,”
Newsweek
, April 12, 1999, 12; Nicholas Wade,
“Gene Study Bolsters Hope for Treating Diseases of Aging,”
New York Times
,
March 5, 1999, A12; and Lisa Belkin, “Splice Einstein and Sammy Glick, Add
a Little Magellan,”
New York Times Magazine
, August 23, 1998, 26-31, 56-61.
For a chilling piece that shows the many ways in which geno-enthusiasm and
commodification fuse, see Stephanie Armour, “Could Your Genes Hold You
Back?”
USA Today
, May 5, 1999, B1-B2. An example of how the bizarre
becomes commonplace is Gina Kolata, “Scientists Place Jellyfish Genes into
Monkeys,”
New York Times
, December 23, 1999, 1-20. We have normalized
the preposterous and do not even ask, Why on earth would anyone do that—
put jellyfish genes into monkeys?
29. The article begins on page 1 and continues on A17 of the
Times
for that
day.
