As to where one draws the lines:

Babies with made-to-order defects?

"Prenatal testing creates controversial options for parents with disabilities

The Associated Press
Updated: 8:10 p.m. CT Dec 21, 2006

The power to create "perfect" designer babies looms over the world of prenatal testing.

But what if doctors started doing the opposite?

Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities — say, deafness or dwarfism — it just means making babies like them.

And a recent survey of U.S. clinics that offer embryo screening suggests it's already happening.

Three percent, or four clinics surveyed, said they have provided the costly, complicated procedure to help families create children with a disability."


I would suggest following the link and reading the entire article before leaping to an opinion on this one. Click "Print this" at the bottom of the first page, and just cancel the printer, to get the whole thing in one scroll.

Quite probably reading the whole thing won't change most peoples "first leap opinion" but it's only fair to see the whole thing first.

(Previously posted in the "Read it in the Newspaper thread" 21 DEC 06)

John