Could tailor-made babies give rise to new forms of discrimination?
In a Wall Street Journal article titled, "A Baby, Please. Blonde, Freckles--Hold the Colic," Gautam Naik notes that "a Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it has received 'half a dozen' requests for the service, which is based on a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD."
While some might argue that legitimate labs would never cross ethical lines by producing "designer babies," there is disagreement from crucial quarters:
Naik quotes the director of the Los Angeles clinic who says, "This is cosmetic medicine. Others are frightened by the criticism but we have no problems with it."
