March 27, 2006
Designer babies are here
We all knew it was coming.
Britain's first IVF "designer baby" clinic is to charge about £6,000 for a made-to-order infant.It will not stop here. Noticeably missing from the discussion was gender selection which is the number one reason for child design.The £5 million centre will bring pioneering embryo screening techniques for the creation of "saviour siblings" to Britain.
Dr Simon Fishel of the Care at the Park clinic
In addition, it will offer testing for up to 100 inherited gene disorders such as muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis.Embryos found to be carrying rogue genes will be discarded and only "healthy" embryos implanted into their mothers.
Posted by Sid at March 27, 2006 12:18 AM | Abortion
Comments
I'm much more worried about a "gattaca effect"(as I call it) than I am sex selection....
Posted by: Sid A at March 27, 2006 10:18 AM
You are so naive, Sidney A.....if your parents had known about genetic testing before you were born....
Aunt Rebecca (Could not resist, sorry--it was too easy)
Posted by: Rebecca at March 27, 2006 11:12 PM
Yea, we thought we were having pupies. Boy did we get it wrong.
Posted by: Sid at March 28, 2006 08:29 AM
