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Ray Ingles
February 20th, 2013 | 9:54 am

The “Tyranny on Screen” article badly misunderstands, or at least misrepresents, Gattaca. It simply does not “pit[] the freedom of parents against the state’s desire to produce only genetically “gifted” babies.”

In that film it’s the culture and the society that undervalues ‘natural’ births, not the state. Indeed, it’s specifically stated in the film that genetic discrimination for jobs is technically illegal. It’s just that ‘drug tests’ aren’t forbidden, and it’s hard to prove that a company didn’t hire you for genetic reasons.

David Nickol
February 20th, 2013 | 10:27 am

E. Christian Brugger’s piece in Public Discourse seems to me to support Sister Margaret McBride’s position in the “Phoenix abortion” case for which she was declared excommunicated.