At the Abraham Center for Life in San Antonio, named after the biblical figure Abraham, parents can shop for the perfect egg and sperm from a long list of donors based on everything from education to personality.
You've heard of build-a-bear? Well, now there's build-a-baby. For $10,000, couples can shop for children with pedigree from an embryo bank that's helping to make the field of fertility morally bankrupt. As the first "commercial dealer" of embryos, the Abraham Center is a prime example of the growing acceptance of eugenics as a reproductive right rather than what it really is--an ethical landmine.
America was a "house divided against itself" on the matter of slavery. Fighting a brutal civil war over the question of whether one human being was fit to own another, buying and selling slaves like cattle on the auction block. Now there are some who think that the buying and selling of human life is justified if the auction block is a tank of liquid nitrogen and the bill of sale is a posting on the Internet.
On this our nation risks another deep division that cannot stand.
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