"Inside the Silicon Valley push to breed super-babies
Investors say genetic prediction services for embryos, used by Elon Musk and others, are a trust fund for future children. Many scientists are skeptical.
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Siddiqui is a rising star in the realm of fertility start-ups backed by tech investors. Her company, San Francisco-based Orchid Health, screens embryos for thousands of potential future illnesses, letting prospective parents plan their families with far more information about their progeny than ever before. For now, her approach has been taken up mostly in her moneyed social circle. But one day, maybe not far off, it could change the way many babies are made everywhere — posing new moral and political questions as reproduction could increasingly become an outcome not of sex but of genetic preselection and data-mining."
@PhotographyElf Show me just ONE BRAVE council person who has voiced concerns about unmasked council meetings & being ableist. SHOW ME ONE BRAVE COUNCIL PERSON IN YYJ!
DISABLED LIVES MATTER.
I WILL NOT BE QUIET ABOUT EUGENICS IN ACTION.
SHUT UP about support of disabled people when you are friendly with eugenist shit. STOP BEING ABLEIST ADJACENT!
Every single #BCMUNICIPALITY has caved to #eugenics & non-science driven #PublicHealth. Not a single MUNICIPAL council member has shown courage to stand up & talk about this issue. Therefore, all BC municipal council persons are silently AGREEING with #EUGENICS.
FUCK YOU.
#FYI #USA #MicrobeTV #BeyondTheNoise #MASA #MakeAmericaSaneAgain #RFKjr #covid19 #covid #sarscov2 #LongCovid #vaccinate #vaccines #antivax #antivaxx #eugenics #VincentRacaniello #PaulOffit #FionaHavers #CDC
RFKjr's formula how to kill the most healthy children at once: stop vaccinating against preventable diseases
This is horrifying and blatant misogyny and discrimination.
A woman in Tennessee was denied prenatal care because she wasn’t married.
The doctor said it went against their “Christian values”
This in a so called “pro life” state which has enacted an abortion ban as well.
It was never about life, it’s always been about control.
They want people procreating, but they want it to be those they deem the “right” people.
The Christian, white, married people.
Tennessee has the worst maternal mortality in the country.
What a shocker.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jul/20/learning-disabled-people-book-winterbourne-view; https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/19/millions-shut-out-society-social-care-crisis-disabled-adults. "A slew of 20th-century politicians & cultural figures... believed that learning-disabled people – & #disabled people in general – were not just pitiful & wretched, but a threat to #humanity’s future, an idea expressed in the... non-science of #eugenics. They included... Winston Churchill, DH Lawrence (who had visions of herding disabled people into “a lethal chamber as big as the Crystal Palace”), & lots of people thought of as progressives."
I’m dealing with multiple severe chronic illnesses, including serious heart issues and frequent loss of consciousness.
Yet most days I feel like supply chain issues will be what kills me.
It’s terrifying to rely on medications & medical supplies during these uncertain times.
You can’t “just stock up” on medications.
Financial issues aside, there’s insurance issues and often limits as to how much a person can have.
There’s virtually no way you can “prep” for medication shortages, and it’s scary.
I spent this entire day trying to track down a medication that’s on back order.
Trying to find an alternative.
Trying to cobble together enough to survive.
People who are non disabled have no idea how scary it is to know that supply chain disruptions could quickly & painfully end your life.
We need a system to ensure medication needs are met.
Many years ago I needed an emergency hysterectomy due to extreme and uncontrollable blood loss.
I spent five days in the hospital and was discharged despite obvious complications.
My surgeon had a vacation planned and wanted me gone.
I had to go to the ER four separate times to be taken seriously, and the fourth trip required a man to advocate on my behalf.
The result? A huge internal bleed and infected abscess that required a second surgery and a month long hospital stay.
The bill? $0.
Because it was in Canada.
This is why I say healthcare is a basic human right.
The way I was treated was appalling, but let’s not pretend that patients don’t face similar barriers and misdiagnoses every day all around the world.
We should not have to suffer financial ruin because we got sick.
We shouldn’t fear bankruptcy because a doctor or hospital delayed our care.
Healthcare is a basic human right.
Is the Right turning embryos into a transhumanist experiment?
Is America going transhumanist? The Washington Post has reported on the broader gold rush to provide genetic screening…
#NewsBeep #News #Genetics #detransition #embryos #eugenics #genderideology #nonclassifiu00e9(e) #None #optional #Science #transhumanism #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/8204/