ABSTRACT
Fletcher, Joseph Our basic ethical choice as we consider man’s new control over himself, over his body and his mind as well as over his society and environment, is still what it was when primitive men holed up in caves and made fires. Chance versus control. Should we leave the fruits of human reproduction to take shape at random, keeping our children dependent on accidents of romance and genetic endowment, of sexual lottery or what one physician calls “the meiotic roulette of his parents’ chromosomes?” Or should we be responsible about it, that is, exercise our rational and human choice, no longer submissively trusting to the blind worship of raw nature?
