“We’re not mad Frankensteins working away in our laboratories to create designer babies.
We are only allowed to look for major diseases which cause handicaps.”
That is, until they realize how much money could be made creating designer babies. I have a suspicious feeling that, as soon as that happens, the moral objections to embryonic eugenics would magically disappear.
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