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The Great Designer Baby Controversy of 2009
A fertility service in L.A. and New York lets couples pick the sex of their baby. (3,800 so far!) and screens embryos for breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, and 70 other diseases. But the scientist who founded it faced controversy when their pre-implantation diagnostic services began including the baby’s eye and hair color. Even the Pope objected — and the Great Designer Baby Controversy began… Is this “ridiculous and irresponsible” — or is “some demand still demand?”
“[W]e cannot escape the fact that science is moving forward,” the fertility service explained — before capitulating to pressure to eliminate the eye and hair color screenings.
The World Transhumanist Association is highlighting this story in the summer issue of their magazine, h+
