The Final Solution?

Many of us have long been worried about the attempt by scientists to prevent homosexuality - or any variation in gender behavior - in utero. Well: the future is now:

Pediatric endocrinologist Maria Newof the Mount Sinai School of Medicine and Florida International Universityisn't just trying to prevent lesbianism by treating pregnant women with an experimental hormone. She's also trying to prevent the births of girls who display an "abnormal" disinterest in babies, don't want to play with girls' toys or become mothers, and whose "career preferences" are deemed to "masculine."

Preventing women from choosing careers over babies is also part of the attempt to affect Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia in utero:

And it isn’t just that many women with CAH have a lower interest, compared to other women, in having sex with men. In another paper entitled “What Causes Low Rates of Child-Bearing in Congenital Adrenal Hyperplasia?” Meyer-Bahlburg writes that “CAH women as a group have a lower interest than controls in getting married and performing the traditional child-care/housewife role. As children, they show an unusually low interest in engaging in maternal play with baby dolls, and their interest in caring for infants, the frequency of daydreams or fantasies of pregnancy and motherhood, or the expressed wish of experiencing pregnancy and having children of their own appear to be relatively low in all age groups.”

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