When Elon Musk pushes Americans to have many children

In front of the cameras, an American couple presents their 3 children while waiting for the next newborn. In order to increase their chances of having a healthy child, the couple asked a laboratory for an analysis of the embryos before fertilization: a polygenic test. “ It gave us a health score for each embryo and it also told us the percentage of risk for each disease. », says Simone Collins. This test indicates, for example, the risks of contracting diabetes types 1 and 2, heart attacks or schizophrenia.

But Simone Collins was not satisfied with these results and asked a second laboratory to analyze other risks: mental this time. These new tests aim to select the best performing embryo. Despite this series of tests, Malcolm and Simone Collins reject any accusation of eugenics, affirming that each family has the right to choose the traits they want in their offspring.

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