Fertility Clinic Bows To Pressure, Nixes Eye- and Hair-Color Screening

destinyland writes "A fertility service in L.A. and New York screens embryos for breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, and 70 other diseases — and lets couples pick the sex of their babies. But when their pre-implantation diagnostic services began including the baby's eye and hair color, even the Pope objected — and the Great Designer Baby Controversy began. '[W]e cannot escape the fact that science is moving forward,' the fertility service explained — before capitulating to pressure to eliminate the eye and hair color screenings."

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What is the big deal?

[Icegryphon]

This is great and if being gay is genetic then they can screen for it
That will allow your kid to not have to grow up with all the trouble that comes with it.
Mod me troll, Please. But atleast you are now thinking about what I just said.

Re:It's not the eye color screening that bugs me

[wealthychef]

It seems to me possible that if people select their offspring intentionally based on genetic information, then we will tend to have less diversity of outcomes, which will impact evolution, and will also perhaps reduce our species' survivability. Steven Hawkings probably would have been screened out of existence, as well as Helen Keller. The clinic is right, it's only a matter of time until we accept this, and we'll just have to wait and see what happens.

Science may be moving forward

[serutan]

But it never seems to outrun ignorance and religion.