Birth Control A task as common day as taking birth control can be construed as a form of eugenics. Furthermore, abortion could also be seen as eugenics. This is because it is usually unwed or poor mothers choose to abort their babies, and therefore, there are less illegitimate or poor children born. This is probably the mildest form of modern day eugenics. Genetic Testing Genetic testing before birth is a much stronger form of modern day eugenics.
Many mothers get amniocentesis or chorionic villi tests done on children while still in the womb.
Often, if a child is found to have diseases such as Downs syndrome, Tays-Sach disease, or other forms of mental retardation, then the parents will choose to abort their child. This is seen as eugenics because it is eliminating the genes of the mentally retarded from society's gene pool as a whole. In vitro fertilization is when an embryo is fertilized from a women's eggs and a man's sperm essentially in a test tube. Furthermore, several different eggs are fertilized and tested and those that are not ideal are often aborted. Genetic Engineering Genetic engineering of unborn children is when tests are performed on the fetus and the genome is altered to prevent or add something.