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    Challenges→Regulatory measures proposed by advocates of genetic selection will be insufficient to prevent the negative consequences of eugenic practices

    Individual reproductive choices are shaped and pressured by unjust social norms and assumptions

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    Critics, however, fear that regulations put in place by advocates – whether in the form of laws, restrictions of the use of federal or state funds, or mere recommendations or guidelines from medical societies – will not be sufficient to avoid the negative consequences of eugenic practices (Duster 1990; Sparrow 2011a). They point out the many ways that a collection of individual choices, pressured by unjust social norms and assumptions, may lead to results not wholly unlike those of the old eugen

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