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I disagree that it's "very strange" or even strange at all to "pick your kids", setting aside adoption.

Choosing which sperm is fittest is something that's done unconsciously (by the egg) and consciously (by choosing a partner), and selecting them through technology, (such as DNA sequencing or abortion) is just another method of accomplishing the goal that is fundamental to reproduction. So I disagree with the idea that it's strange to "pick your kids" - although that doesn't address moral issues.

As far as moral issues go, some people want to outlaw abortion of babies with Down Syndrome. But in any case, it's common to do that (in some places more than others), hence why people propose to stop it.

Eugenics is a bad word. My own thoughts are that while some people say "eugenics" and mean the selection of desirable genetic characteristics by anyone and any means, I think that is an untenable definition. I find it more useful to use "eugenics" to mean the selection of genetic characteristics by someone other than the parents, an external authority that "knows best". That is the sort of eugenics that I think ought to be guarded against, primarily.