I watched an interview this morning with Dr. Brian Skotko of the Children’s Hospital in Boston and Dr. Lachlan Forrow, Director of Ethics at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. The interview centers around the new blood test that can detect a fetus with Down syndrome prenatally in a non-invasive manner during the first trimester of pregnancy. I have already written some thoughts about the blood test (“Why Screen for Down Syndrome?“), and I recommend watching this interview for more information about the ethical and medical questions it raises. The highlight of the interview for me was when Dr. Forrow was asked why we wouldn’t want to create a “superior race”? He responded by quoting political commentator George Will, who has a son with Down syndrome. Will once wrote that people with Down syndrome have “a congenital inability to hate.” So, Dr. Forrow asked, “What exactly is a superior race?”