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22 Berkeley Tech. L.J. 897 (2007)
A Brave New World of Designer Babies?

handle is hein.journals/berktech22 and id is 903 raw text is: A BRAVE NEW WORLD OF DESIGNER BABIES? By Sonia M. Sutert TABLE OF CONTENTS I. IN T R O D U C T IO N .................................................................................... 898 II. THE RISE AND FALL OF THE EUGENICS MOVEMENT ............. 901 A . THE O RIGINS OF EUGENICS .................................................................. 902 B. GOVERNMENT INVOLVEMENT AND EUGENICS LAWS .......................... 906 C. CONSTITUTIONAL CHALLENGE TO EUGENICS: BUCK V. BELL .............. 909 D. WORLD WAR II AND THE DECLINE OF EUGENICS ................................ 914 III. PROPHYLAXIS AGAINST CLASSIC EUGENICS ............................ 916 IV. TOW ARD NEOEUGENICS ................................................................... 922 A. PRENATAL TESTING AND CURRENT GENETIC REPRODUCTIVE T ECHN OLOG IES .................................................................................... 923 B. ADVANCING TECHNOLOGIES: TOWARDS DESIGNER BABIES .......... 929 C. CULTURAL NORMS AND ACCEPTANCE OF NON-THERAPEUTIC REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGIES .......................................................... 934 D. DISTINCTIONS BETWEEN OLD AND NEW EUGENICS? .......................... 937 1. Presence or Absence of State Coercion ....................................... 937 2. Improvem ents in Science .............................................................. 939 3. E thnic and Racial Bias ................................................................. 940 4. Societal Versus Individual Benefit ............................................... 946 V. WHAT'S WRONG WITH (NEO)EUGENICS? .................................... 948 A. A RELATIONAL ACCOUNT OF AUTONOMY .......................................... 949 B. EVALUATING EUGENICS THROUGH THE LENS OF RELATIONAL A UTO N O M Y .......................................................................................... 954 V I. C O N C L U SIO N ......................................................................................... 968 © 2007 Sonia M. Suter t Associate Professor, The George Washington University Law School. B.A., Michigan State University, 1985; M.S. Human Genetics, University of Michigan, 1987; J.D., University of Michigan, 1994. I am grateful to Naomi Cahn, Julie Steiff, Ronald Suter, and Bob Tuttle for their invaluable comments and insights. Many thanks also to Gabrielle Kohlmeier, my re- search assistant, and Kasia Solon, my library liaison, both of whom were incredibly effi- cient, thorough, and resourceful. Finally, I want to thank Dean Fred Lawrence and the George Washington University Law School for research and faculty support.

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