Genetically Engineering a 'Perfect' Baby
"Designer babies" aren't just science fiction anymore. As reproductive technology advances, parents and clinicians have begun screening embryos for genetic diseases, including less immediately serious genetic aberrations like the genes for familial breast cancer. Will parents be making cosmetic decisions about what their children look like next? Ethics professor and technology advocate Ronald Green squares off with Marcy Darnovsky of the California Center for Genetics and Society in this contentious intellectual debate spanning the political, social, and insurance-related implications of reproductive genetics.
Posted 5:18, 17 April 2008