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    It is not the case that Regulatory measures proposed by advocates of genetic selection will be insufficient to prevent the negative consequences of eugenic practices

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    • 1.Individual reproductive choices are shaped and pressured by unjust social norms and assumptions
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    • 2.A collection of such pressured individual choices may produce population-level outcomes similar to those of historical eugenics programs
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    • 3.Laws, funding restrictions, and medical society guidelines do not neutralize the social pressures driving those choices
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    • 1.Regulatory frameworks are designed to govern explicit state directives, not the diffuse aggregation of market-driven parental preferences.
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    • 2.Habermas argues in 'The Future of Human Nature' that liberal eugenics undermines communicative ethics regardless of formal legal permissibility.
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    • 3.When genetic selection becomes commercially available, market logic replaces regulatory logic as the dominant structuring force of reproductive decisions.
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    • 1.Allen Buchanan's distinction between treatment and enhancement cannot be operationalized in law without contested normative judgments regulators lack authority to resolve.
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    • 2.Regulatory bodies that cannot define the treatment-enhancement boundary cannot draw enforceable lines against eugenic selection at the population level.
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