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British rules relaxing for embryo screening to get "designer babies"
Filed under: Health & Safety: Babies
In one of
Isabel Allende's fabulous books,
the heroine selects her children's eye and hair color by desiring a certain child during the act of conception. Well,
so far it hasn't worked for me.
If being able to pick and choose your child's attributes seems like a good idea to you, it just got a little easier to make it happen in Britain. Not for eyes and hair color, but to create a genetic match for a sick sibling. The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority announced that they were about to relax some of the rules surrounding embryo screening to create "designer babies."
According to the authority, the rules changes were necessary because of new technology, changing societal norms, and the reality of the potential to cure sick kids. We've been talking about the ethics of this, here. Join in the discussion.
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