I never read to the end of the article, because as soon as the 'critics warn about designer babies' line came up I stopped reading.
It's a long, long way between "preventing disease by manipulating someone's genes" and "deciding you really wanted a blonde baby".
As someone who lost his brother to a genetic disease it sort of pisses me off to hear people try and tell people in my family's shoes that we're on a slippery slope to 'designer babies' when all we want is to keep our family member from slowly dying of a disease with symptoms like Alzheimer's at age 20.
If "designer babies" is the price for cures like that, we should gladly pay it. This from a pretty conservative guy, esp. on life issues.
It's a long, long way between "preventing disease by manipulating someone's genes" and "deciding you really wanted a blonde baby".
As someone who lost his brother to a genetic disease it sort of pisses me off to hear people try and tell people in my family's shoes that we're on a slippery slope to 'designer babies' when all we want is to keep our family member from slowly dying of a disease with symptoms like Alzheimer's at age 20.
If "designer babies" is the price for cures like that, we should gladly pay it. This from a pretty conservative guy, esp. on life issues.