"C. S. Lewis is often underutilized as a source regarding topics that he would likely have considered extremely important. Among these areas is his perspective on eugenics.
With the understanding that eugenics involves the intentional “improvement” of the human race, three historical observations from the early 1900s give some background to this practice. First, the thought of the Western world as a whole leaned strongly in favor of the implementation of eugenics.
Second, the landmark decision of Buck v. Bell in America allowed for the enforced sterilization of those deemed mentally unfit.
Lastly, the Nazi regime went even further by carrying out an aggressive eugenics program on a racial level.
With this understanding of what eugenics means in theory and practice, Lewis’ philosophical, ethical, and theological arguments against it lay an important groundwork for both refuting the philosophy of eugenics as well as applying a Christian worldview to practices today: gene editing and abortion.
The West still faces the same ethical questions posed in Lewis’ day. Stephen Phillips, comparing eugenics to the recent advances in gene-editing technology, writes, “Just as an evolutionary understanding of human beings and human morality leads to a rejection of objective values, the power to determine the characteristics of future human beings will do the same” (Phillips 2012). His conclusion? The wisdom of Lewis has never been more important to grasp, for he saw that the true evil of eugenics lay in the way it taught man that humans could surpass their nature by destroying the philosophical, ethical, and religious principles of Christianity.
Through eugenics, Lewis argued that humanity would not simply forget but erase the definition of what it meant to be human, and this, he thought, was a self-destructive process."
To simplify, for every gain in power, humans will lose freedom. Eugenics, by giving humans greater power over themselves, makes man a slave of man, gradually removing the “pity, happiness, and freedom” of humans by turning them into potentially fitter but quite mechanical creatures (Lewis 1966).
His overarching philosophical goal was to lead humans toward true purpose, the purpose found in Christ alone: “God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other” (Lewis 1960, 54). In other words, the most fundamental and necessary purpose of humanity is to get closer to God, the source of spiritual life.
Christians must oppose any presence of eugenics today because it holds all the tempting allure of Satan (For God knows that when you eat of it your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God, knowing good and evil. Genesis 3:5). But like any devilish trick, it can only lead to death."
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every fault, the answer is, that Moses did but suffer it to be so, because of the hardness of their hearts, but from the beginning it was not so. Matthew 19:34-37. 
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