here come the designer babies

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From the article>> And yet, according to doom-mongers, the first goose-step towards a master-race has apparently been taken through creation of a "GM human embryo".

"It will very soon be used to create 'enhanced designer babies'," says David King of Human Genetics Alert, the UK lobbying group which issued a press release (PDF) on 11 May publicising the "breakthrough".

"This would turn children into objects, designed just like other consumer commodities, and would lead to a new eugenics in which the rich are able to give their children genetic advantages over others," says King, whose organisation timed its publicity to coincide with a forthcoming vote by the UK parliament on new legislation which could legalise modification of human embryos for research purposes.