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This is a 4 page paper discussing the ideas of identity through the ongoing controversy of reproductive technology. Identity in today’s culture has become skewed in relation to the increasing technological possibilities in reproduction and the continued quest for the ideal American dream. Eugenics, or selective breeding, has been the basis for considerable controversy for over seventy years yet reproductive technology continues to expand. Today’s technologies can offer researchers control over genetic characteristics in which the genes carrying congenital defects can be identified, altered or removed. While this is intended to create a healthier population, reproductive technology is also considered as a way to pre-select desirable traits for future generations; the problem being who will be the ones to decide which traits are desirable? In the 1920s, Chesterton discussed the protection of American identity through eugenics while Albee’s play in the 1960s “The American Dream” tells how the American identity has become one of superficial and materialistic values. Most recently, McGee in his text “The Perfect Baby” points out that regardless of any advances in reproductive technology, social influences will always overpower them.
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basis for considerable controversy for over seventy years yet reproductive technology continues to expand. Todays technologies can offer researchers control over genetic characteristics in which the genes carrying congenital defects
can be identified, altered or removed. While this is intended to create a healthier population, reproductive technology is also considered as a way to pre-select desirable traits for future generations;
the problem being who will be the ones to decide which traits are desirable? In the 1920s, Chesterton discussed the protection of American identity through eugenics while Albees play in
the 1960s "The American Dream" tells how the American identity has become one of superficial and materialistic values. Most recently, McGee in his text "The Perfect Baby" points out that
regardless of any advances in reproductive technology, social influences will always overpower them. Despite the recent trends in reproductive technology, the controversy over
eugenics (selective breeding) has been going on since the first half of the 20th century. Chesterton (1922) first tackled the issue in the 1920s when American policy began to support
that area of science which would ensure selective breeding of humans and which was reflected in the immigration restrictions against people from Eastern and Southern Europe because they were thought
to be inferior (Chesterton, 1922). The idea behind this premise was to protect the American "identity" which in many ways was still in its infancy. Chesterton argued adamantly against the
idea of eugenics and referred to it as an "evil" which later became particularly important during Hitlers experiments in Germany which seemed to confirm Chestertons definition. Chesterton ascertained that any
manipulation of natural identity was an "abnormal sin" as "Eugenics itself, in large quantities or small, coming quickly or coming slowly, urged from good motives or bad, applied to a
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