Newgenics

Newgenics is the belief that people should not have any genetic altercation to any significant degree. Newgenics is distinguishable in genetic enhancement and the idea of extropy. This is the concept of the anti-transhumanists, bio-conservatives, and human exceptionalists. Certain issues have arisen on the belief of negenics and have become a large majority of bio-ethical opinion in modern society such as societal discord and transgression of divine and natural law. Now that modern society has moved from theoretical to practical for the capacity to enhance, it is now an issue in politics. Through the practising of newgenics to prevent eugenics it could also be viewed as supporting eugenics

Eugenics

Eugenics is the "applied science or the bio-social movement which advocates the use of practices aimed at improving the genetic composition of a population", usually referring to human populations. The origins of the concept of eugenics began with certain interpretations of Mendelian inheritance,...

in itself. This does not commit to have the same idea as of Dysgenics

Dysgenics

Dysgenics is the study of factors producing the accumulation and perpetuation of defective or disadvantageous genes and traits in offspring of a particular population or species. Dysgenic mutations have been studied in animals such as the mouse and the fruit fly...

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Rise of the New-Eugenics

for further information see Diamond v. Chakrabarty

Diamond v. Chakrabarty

Diamond v. Chakrabarty, , was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with whether genetically modified organisms can be patented.-Background:...

The rise of new genomic medicine and the implementation of profound legal and regulatory changes converged to foster what is sometimes characterized as, "the new eugenics," or as Edwin Black

Edwin Black

Edwin Black is an American Jewish syndicated columnist, and journalist specializing in the historical interplay between economics and politics in the Middle East, petroleum policy, the abuses practiced by corporations, and the financial underpinnings of Nazi Germany, among other topics...

's term, "New-genics".

Genetic Elitism

This links evolution, heredity, scientific and technical progress to the most intimate aspects of life and intelligence and has given us newgenics.

Present Newgenics

In a post-sterilization world newgenics is expected to put a divide in society. Edwin Black explains in his book,War Against the Weak, "Newgenics may rise like a phoenix from the ashes of eugenics and continue along the same route blazed in the last century. If it does, few will be able to clearly track the implications because the social and scientific revolutions will develop globally and corporately at the speed of a digital signal. The process will manifest as gradual genetic-based economic disenfranchisement. First, newgenics will create an uninsurable, unemployable and unfinanceable genetic underclass." Marjorie Thompson is a 38 year old who hasan intellectual disability due to a lack of oxygen while she was born. She currently lives on her own and helps those with disabilities. Her mom said she would take the baby away from her if she was to ever have one. Those who do decide to have a baby with a disability are lacking the support they need. Marjorie explained that she has felt the sting of newgenics.

See also

• Bioethics
  Bioethics
  Bioethics is the study of controversial ethics brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Bioethicists are concerned with the ethical questions that arise in the relationships among life sciences, biotechnology, medicine, politics, law, and philosophy....
  
  
• Population Genetics
  Population genetics
  Population genetics is the study of allele frequency distribution and change under the influence of the four main evolutionary processes: natural selection, genetic drift, mutation and gene flow. It also takes into account the factors of recombination, population subdivision and population...
  
  
• Human Genome Project
  Human Genome Project
  The Human Genome Project is an international scientific research project with a primary goal of determining the sequence of chemical base pairs which make up DNA, and of identifying and mapping the approximately 20,000–25,000 genes of the human genome from both a physical and functional...
  
  
• Buck v. Bell
  Buck v. Bell
  Buck v. Bell, , was the United States Supreme Court ruling that upheld a statute instituting compulsory sterilization of the unfit, including the mentally retarded, "for the protection and health of the state." It was largely seen as an endorsement of negative eugenics—the attempt to improve...
  
  
• Euthanasia
  Euthanasia
  Euthanasia refers to the practice of intentionally ending a life in order to relieve pain and suffering....
  
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Further reading

1. Black, E. (2003). War against the weak: eugenics and America's campaign to create a master race. New York: Four Walls Eight Windows.
2. Mehlman, M. J. (2003). Wondergenes: genetic enhancement and the future of society. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

External links

1. (http://www.alternet.org/story/19850/ | Extropian Trash)
2. (http://www.ornl.gov/sci/techresources/Human_Genome/elsi/patents.html | Genetics and Patenting)
3. (http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/glenn.html?print | Ethical Issues in Genetic Engineering and Transgenics)