OPINION: New Eugenics -- Selecting Your Baby's Eye and Hair Color

By Wesley J. Smith , Senior Fellow in Bioethics - March 02, 2009

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Remember when we were told that IVF, coupled with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), would only be used to prevent serious genetic health maladies from being passed to the next generation? That was never true, of course. The intent was to get people to accept the principle that parents should be able to design their children, and that kind of thing is best promoted via the example of serious illness--just as in assisted suicide. But anyone who thought such restrictions were ever ... Read the Full Article
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  • kloe c
    designing your own baby

    i think that being able to design your own baby is absolutley ridiculous when you become pregnant you are ment to be happy and you love your baby what ever its apperance making your own baby is ike making a clone its not actually a real human so too all you sick bastads its fuking wrong!!

    - kloe cGB June 23, 2009 8:54AM

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