TOI edition dated 10th august' 06 boldly proclaimed 'Designer babies for $5k". For the mentioned price you get an embryo created in the lab. You also get to choose the color of your baby's eye and it's hair too! The clinic also boasts of sperm donors having Ph.D degrees and egg donors of having attended college atleast. Want to know what you baby is gonna look like? They are even gonna provide you with a couple of childhoos pictures of your donors.
Excuse me, sir? Are there not enough children in this world who could be given a better future? Anyhow since we are already at this stage of evolution why not venture to think a bit furthur. The embryo is created in the lab. The mother's womb is still needed for it's growth. Could the day be far off when that is also possible in some lab? And with the advances in gene research why not create one who can fight in a war and never get hurt, one who can all the pain and not cry or maybe someone who has 3 fingers and 1 thumb because on some creative day the world decides that that looks much better!
Excuse me, sir? Are there not enough children in this world who could be given a better future? Anyhow since we are already at this stage of evolution why not venture to think a bit furthur. The embryo is created in the lab. The mother's womb is still needed for it's growth. Could the day be far off when that is also possible in some lab? And with the advances in gene research why not create one who can fight in a war and never get hurt, one who can all the pain and not cry or maybe someone who has 3 fingers and 1 thumb because on some creative day the world decides that that looks much better!
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