Designer Babies

Genetic selection of embryos occurs today by a technique called pre-implantation genetic rhetoric around diagnosis (PGD). In PGD, a single cell of an embryo conceived during IVF is removed and genetically tested before parents decide whether to implant or discard the embryo. PGD offers us the chance to eradicate genetic illnesses from our world. Surely it would be wrong not to use this technology. Parents fiercely defend the right to give their kids the best …

…be able to cure psychological illnesses before they start and even create a new breed of humans that are better adapted to our present environment. Genetic engineering offers us the chance to repair the defects in our bodies that pure reactive medicine cannot cure, but it also gives us limitless opportunities to modify the design of the human form: to be not only the parents of our children, but also their creators and their gods.