Thursday, August 16, 2012

Ethical?

Genetically engineering 'ethical' babies is a moral obligation, says Oxford professor

Genetically screening our offspring to make them better people is just 'responsible parenting', claims an eminent Oxford academic.

Professor Julian Savulescu said that creating so-called designer babies could be considered a "moral obligation" as it makes them grow up into "ethically better children".

The expert in practical ethics said that we should actively give parents the choice to screen out personality flaws in their children as it meant they were then less likely to "harm themselves and others".

The academic, who is also editor-in-chief of the Journal of Medical Ethics, made his comments in an article in the latest edition of Reader's Digest.

He explained that we are now in the middle of a genetic revolution and that although screening, for all but a few conditions, remained illegal it should be welcomed.

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I wonder if the anti genetically modified food crowd will agree?

Who is to decide what traits are to be encouraged and which discouraged. Progressives have no sense of reality. Do they not remember what the Third Reich promoted?

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