Criticisms Stop Designer Baby Clinic
The Los Angeles, California based fertility clinic that promised infertile couples they can provide them with designer babies has decided to halt the new trend after serious criticisms. The Fertility Institute in Los Angeles, which also has clinics in Mexico and New York had said they received pleas and requests from couples to help them choose the aesthetics of their unborn child.
The clinic issued a statement today saying, "Though well-intended, we remain sensitive to public perception and feel that any benefit the diagnostic studies may offer are far outweighed by the apparent negative societal impacts involved. For those patients with albinism or other ocular pigmentation disorders, we continue to offer preimplantation genetic diagnosis in general, but will not be investigating the pigmentation of anybody structures."
The superficial nature of this project frightened many people nationwide, and the story made news globally. Designer babies may be the way of the future, but it seems like the post-octomom nation is not ready for this step just yet.
Posted by Tala on 3/11/2009 8:51:01 AM
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