Newborn Genetic Screening – The New Eugenics?

Increasingly, the specter of eugenics has emerged over State government newborn genetic screening programs. For example, The Changing Moral Focus of Newborn Screening, the December 2008 report issued by The President’s Council on Bioethics, states: “…At what point have we crossed the line from legitimate family planning to capricious and morally dubious eugenics?