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Designer Babies
Singularity Hub writes "The Fertility Institutes recently stunned the fertility community by being the first company to boldly offer couples the opportunity to screen their embryos not only for diseases and gender, but also for completely benign characteristics such as eye color, hair color, and complexion. The Fertility Institutes proudly claims this is just the tip of the iceberg, and plans to offer almost any conceivable customization as science makes them available. Even as couples from across the globe are flocking in droves to pay the company their life's savings for a custom baby, opponents are vilifying the company for shattering moral and ethical boundaries. Like it or not, the era of designer babies is officially here and there is no going back."
Babies are people. An embryo is not. A petri dish full of human cells on the way to becoming a baby can't suffer and therefore doesn't deserve the protections we afford to animals and people who can suffer.
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If he's still in the NYPD he must be good at bullshitting Internal Affairs.
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