Brave new world of genetic selection

Medical science has advanced to such a stage that we are within a few years of being able to detect more and more diseases and disabilities in the womb.
Already some women found to have babies with abnormalities are under pressure to terminate.

Is it right that we should strive to create a world increasingly free of disability and disease in this way?

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Has anybody seen the movie "Gatica"?

For those that havn't, it's a thoughtful sci-fi flick of a future where science has figured out how to select the best genes from a mother and father and produce superior children, smarter, stronger, more healthy, etc.

What this does is create d dual-class society. The genetic wonderkids get the best education, the best jobs, become the elite of society, where the kids born in the natural way become societies janitors.

The hero of the story is born the natural way, concieved in the backseat of a Chevy. Through determination, hard work and genetic fraud, he manages to pass himself off as one of the genetic super-kids and gets selected for the elite of the elite, a maned space mission to the outer planets.

It's a fascinating story.

The science is comming. Eugenics. Today we can detect flaws in-eutero, parents have the option of aborting children with serious defects. Tomorrow we will have the ability to correct the defects. How long before we have the world invisioned in the movie "Gatica"? How will we handle the moral decisions presented to us?