Category Archives: Designer Babies: Ethics| Issues| Controversies
Designer Babies Too Hot For Students?
Isn’t it unfortunate that an issue as controversial as designer babies which raises a lot of ethical questions is too “hot” for students to discuss? Wouldn’t a school setting be the best and ideal place for an informed and healthy discussion about this issue? From SMH: THE state government made a last-minute decision to remove [...]
Newcastle University’s Three-Parent Designer Babies
Here’s a news report from the Daily Mail which will surely add fire to the already contentious debate about designer babies: Dozens of human embryos with three parents have been created by British scientists, ushering in an era of designer babies. The embryos – which effectively have two mothers and one father – have been [...]
Designer Babies: CNN Interviews Jeffrey Steinberg & Jonathan Moreno
Here’s an interview with Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, a medical endocrinologist, who’s in the forefront of those who are, for lack of a better word, advocating for designer babies. A separate interview with biomedical ethicist Jonathan Moreno follows. To be honest, we’re kind of conflicted about this whole thing and haven’t made up our minds yet [...]
DNA Screening for Designer Babies
If you are able to, would you screen your future babies for defective genes? According to David Goldstein of Duke University in North Carolina, more and more parents in the future will seek DNA tests on their embryos to weed out the faulty ones. From Times Online: By 2020, researchers will have discovered many more [...]
