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The Language of the GenesIt reported a scheme to ban the marriage of those with mental disease unless they were sterilised with a robust simplification of Mendelism: idiots give birth to idiots!' the eugenical message is often justified on financial grounds. At the Sesquicentennial Exhibition in Philadelphia in 192.6 the American Eugenics Society had a board that counted up the Si00 per second supposed to be spent on people with 'bad heredity'. Sixty yens later, one proponent of the plan to sequence the human genome claimed that the project would pay for itself by 'curing' schizophrenia — by which he meant the termination of pregnancies carrying the as yet hypothetical and undiscovered gene for the disease. The 1930s were a period of financial squeeze for health care. Seventy years on, the state is still anxious to limit the amount spent on medicine in the face of an inexorable rise in costs, with inborn diseases among the most expensive. There is a fresh danger that genetics will be used as an excuse to discriminate against the handicapped in order to save money ...» |
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