Resurrecting Eugenics: Should Only Healthy Children be Born?

March 2, 2022

Dr. Calum MacKellar, a bioethicist from St. Mary’s University, London, UK, and director of research for the Scottish Council on Human Bioethics in Edinburgh, delivered a presentation for the Asbury University Human Dignity Lecture series entitled, Resurrecting Eugenics: Should Only Healthy Children be Born?

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With growing concern that previously discredited eugenics of early 20th century regimes may now be resurfacing as more ‘sanitized’ selective practices, MacKellar examined these practices from a Christian perspective and the ethical consequences of such selections on modern society.