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One Los Angeles fertility clinic is now offering to design babies to the exact specifications of the parents.
The Fertility Institute is calling this new technology "cosmetic medicine". Do you want your daughter to look like Barbie? Done. Just order up a tall, light-skinned, green-eyed, daughter with blonde hair and the clinic will do the rest.
scientists and their magazine outlets are celebrating "transhumanism" and breakthroughs in genetic engineering as the "next step" and a chance to "improve our evolution"
Mark Hughes, one of the pioneers of PGD, said: "It's ridiculous and irresponsible. There are thousands of desperate couples who have no hope of having healthy children without this technology, and here we are talking about this."
Marcy Darnovsky, director of the Centre for Genetics and Society, said: "The concern is that we'll be creating a society with new sorts of discrimination. Now it's eye and hair colour. What happens if it's height and intelligence? Some parents may have qualms, but still feel under pressure."
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Dr Steinberg's clinic, already the world's largest provider of gender choice, has had "five or six" requests from couples for the new service, which involves embryo selection not genetic modification.
He expects the first "trait selection" baby to be born next year. The cost for the process will be about $US18,000 ($A28,000).
It is based on pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, which has for several years allowed doctors to identify potentially lethal diseases or conditions in embryos.
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Originally posted by Skyfloating
As predicted by sci-fi author Aldous Huxley in the 1950s.
While most of us still see this as something unnatural and sinister, scientists and their magazine outlets are celebrating "transhumanism" and breakthroughs in genetic engineering as the "next step" and a chance to "improve our evolution".
Im curious what the people here on ATS think.
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Originally posted by Irishwolf
So what will the future be like? I'm sure there are doctors out there who will abuse this to make million on parents who realise they can have pink or blue skinned babies and the like parading them around as fashion items...
Wow... that thought just made me feel sick for some reason...
Don't tell me you don't think there are people out there that are so rich but stupid that they wouldn't do this, and once the rich and famous start doing it...
Originally posted by Skyfloating
I think its valid to find ways cure disabilities but reject the type of atheism that sees the entirety of a human as a lump of meat.
Originally posted by TheWayISeeIt
But if we were going to get all 'metaphysical' about it -- and agreed with the concept that we choose our bodies, lives, parents, challenges, etc. in this life before incarnating -- what difference does it make?