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    Supports→Private reproductive choices about genetic traits can have a eugenic effect on society even without state coercion

    Individual reproductive decisions, when aggregated, can narrow society's acceptance of human diversity

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    Prenatal genetic testing raises serious ethical questions about reproductive rights and eugenics. Reproductive rights are no longer just about the right not to have a child (to use contraception, to have an abortion) or the right to bear a child (to refuse population control measures). Reproductive rights have come to encompass the right to access technological assistance to procreate and to have a certain kind of child (Callahan 1998).[46] The specter of eugenics—and its images of involuntary

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