Haley Baumeister’s Reviews > Conceiving Parenthood: American Protestantism and the Spirit of Reproduction > Status Update

"The women who did not take this option [of prenatal genetic testing in order to abort early "if needed"] report with searing uniformity the profoundly negative responses of the medical personnel around them."

"Promoting the tools of 'responsible parenthood.' mainline Protestants endorsed family planning and orderly hygiene as practices integral to civic duty. Taking their cues from Ladies Home Journal ("The Magazine Women Believe In"), many mainline Protestant mothers employed Ivory Soap and the principles of discriminating reproduction to makes sure their offspring were legitimate inheritors of the promised land." (!)

Vindicated for being weirded the hell out by "genetic counseling."

"The Protestants most accustomed to their role as well-educated citizens had the fewest theological resources to resist the messages of eugenics."

early iterations of the eugenics movement a century ago - it's not looking good, folks!!!
current biotech doesn't create these attitudes, only coddles and distills them.

man, those Lysol ads aimed toward married women are outright demonic.

"justification by meticulously planned procreation"