people consider it bad because they fear it will be forced upon them by racist/ableist powers
Yes, because this was normal thinking 150 years ago when eugenics was gaining prominence:
At some future period, not very distant as measured by centuries, the civilised races of man will almost certainly exterminate, and replace, the savage races throughout the world.
Charles Darwin The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Every state application of eugenics since then has been applied to achieve some form of demographic reconstitution.
Nazism took the Western obsession with eugenics to its lowest point.
So yes, all eugenics is bad. Your example of the mother and father does not amount to eugenics as their motivation is not to “improve the human gene pool” and is instead much more personal.
Moreover, even if you could implement it perfectly, at first, whatever that means, any corruption of the system/change in power or policy creates a big potential problem. E.g. consider Trump inheriting these policies from Day 1, even if perfect.
Yes, because this was normal thinking 150 years ago when eugenics was gaining prominence:
Charles Darwin The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex
Every state application of eugenics since then has been applied to achieve some form of demographic reconstitution.
Nazism took the Western obsession with eugenics to its lowest point.
So yes, all eugenics is bad. Your example of the mother and father does not amount to eugenics as their motivation is not to “improve the human gene pool” and is instead much more personal.
Moreover, even if you could implement it perfectly, at first, whatever that means, any corruption of the system/change in power or policy creates a big potential problem. E.g. consider Trump inheriting these policies from Day 1, even if perfect.