A lot of the people in this thread are getting hung up on the societal issue of simple discrimination against people with a certain characteristic deemed a "disability" (e.g. smoking, obesity). This doesn't seem so novel to me. Discrimination's been around in north america for a while. What frightens me more than anything else in both these articles was the reference to the San Francisco vasectomy prorgram as
You folks are all worried about the government trying to play nanny? I'm worried about the insinuation that the government is trying to play God with genetics....