Move over, silly jeans controversy. There’s actual eugenics in the world. And the attitude fueling the culture of death is alive and well and in your local airport — in casual conversations.

Kristan Hawkins, president of Students for Life, has wonderful, beautiful children with cystic fibrosis. Her daughter Gracie recently had complications, surgery, and a two-week hospital stay. As mother and child headed home, Kristan overheard a woman at the Denver airport saying:

She doesn’t want kids because her friends who had kids after 40 all have “something not quite right” about them and, if she does, she’ll have IVF done so she can “test” the embryos because she don’t want a “life like that.”

Kristan continues:

Let me explain what she meant: If one of her children would test positive in the petri dish for cystic fibrosis, little girl like my precious & perfect Gracie, she would throw her away because she’s not genetically “perfect.”

She adds: “The selfishness of culture is what is fueling testing of children in the womb or lab. It’s eugenics.”

And: “Eugenics is here in America and in full force . . . and it ain’t in stupid jean ads.”

I never get used to how casually people say such things within earshot of strangers.