A Jewish organization in Brooklyn is combining the age-old techniques of Orthodox matchmaking with the brand new techniques of genetic testing in an effort to avert disease. Meanwhile, an increasing number of IVF clinics have begun testing embryos for undesired traits and discarding the unfit. Christine Rosen considers the future of eugenics in the age of genetic knowledge.

(Click here to read this entire article from the Summer 2003 issue of The New Atlantis.)