Viewpoint: Selective pronatalism: The radical “ethical” case challenging parents’ right to end a pregnancy when a fetus has a severe genetic disorder Nature | October 19, 2026

https://geneticliteracyproject.org/2026/10/19/viewpoint-selective-pronatalism-the-radical-ethical-case-challenging-parents-right-to-end-a-pregnancy-when-a-fetus-has-a-severe-genetic-disorder/ Even if polygenic embryo screening worked exactly as advertised, it could still do real social damage. That’s the argument from Gaia Ghirardi of the WZB Berlin Social Science Center, Arno Van Hootegem of the Norwegian Institute of Public Health and K. Paige Harden of the University of Texas at Austin in a correspondence published in Nature Human Behaviour.