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Cassetteboy
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· Jun 17
!["In 2021, she co-authored the paper Can 'eugenics' be defended?, which argued that the scientific debate around genetic enhancement was polarized and concluded that "just as enhancement isn't a unified category that we can simply judge as morally good or bad, so too with genetic enhancement or eugenics".[16] Fleischman wrote an essay in 2023 titled You're Probably a Eugenicist, arguing that Dor Yeshorim's goal of reducing the rate of Tay-Sachs disease and cystic fibrosis in Jewish families could be described as eugenicist and that "Gay men and lesbian women in the US often use gamete donors from egg and sperm banks to have kids in a process that is transparently eugenic ... Organisations that recruit egg and sperm donors don't just recruit for fertility, they also screen for mental and physical health, height, education and criminal history – because that's what their clients want and expect."
She has been described as pronatalist, notably saying, "I encourage people who are responsible and smart and conscientious to have children, because they're going to make the future better." She attended the Natal Conference in 2023, where she argued that people with mental illness are statistically likely to marry other mentally ill people and pass those genes along to their children, suggesting that some children are biologically better than others."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:q3zim7z23au6peneuzup7rrx/bafkreia6jpdt2q2fv6uvvr7xjbyi3aws2s75ygi42z45lozju2r75nsw24@jpeg)
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