hypernayte (Score 1)

I'm a Mormon, living in Utah. I tend to be quite religious. However, I believe that there is something to be said for letting nature take its course (I realize that there are qualifications to this) and let what happens happen. I am concerned about the "slippery slope" that is genetic selection. I have asthma and epilepsy, and feel that much of who I am was defined by my learning to over come these relatively minor afflictions. My two children suffered from TTS (Twin to Twin Syndrome) and were in the Newborn ICU for three months, floating between the threshold of life and death. I believe that they are stronger for it. I'm not saying that I wish for everyone to deal with horrible ailments (especially those that threaten life), but I sort of wonder if methods of embryonic selection could be cheating us of certain invaluable struggles that make us who we are as the Human Race. I don't know. Catch me on a different day and I might disagree somewhat with myself.