Designer Babies LA Style: Clinic Offers Genetic Traits Selection

BBC: This involves testing a cell taken from a very early embryo before it is put into the mother's womb. Doctors then select an embryo free from rogue genes - or in this case an embryo with the desired physical traits such as blonde hair and blue eyes - to continue the pregnancy, and discard any others.

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March 3, 2009 at 1:46 pm - KNBC Los Angeles
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Scientist   March 3rd, 2009 - 1:50 pm

This is great! Then the embryos that are maked for disposal can used to make stem cells for research.

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Drano   March 3rd, 2009 - 3:14 pm

Selective breeding works in domestic livestock herds, companion animals, working and sporting dogs and wildlife populations to maintain healthy populations of those animals and fewer genetic health problems.
Why should humans do any less. How can propagating degenerative genetic conditions do anything but produce long term misery and declining overall health in the population in general. That is what we are seeing now.

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To DRANO   March 3rd, 2009 - 3:42 pm

Drano wrote: “How can propagating degenerative genetic conditions do anything but produce long term misery and declining overall health in the population in general. That is what we are seeing now.”

You said it, brother!

People who get all bent out of shape over “EUGENICS” are most likely LIBTARDS who have genetic defects and don’t want to be “left behind” when more HEALTHY GENES are propagated… Tough luck…

Political correctness has in recent decades gone MAD with labeling defects as “SPECIAL,” but the whole world knows it is BETTER to be WHOLE than to be defective and falsely labeled as SPECIAL.

peter c   March 3rd, 2009 - 3:57 pm

This is just another sign of Mankind’s arrogance…Playing God.
It’s events like this that are bringing us closer and closer to Armageddon.First we kill God in our society…teach kids lies about Jesus and demonize all Religions…Then we kill millions of unborn babies…then we discard any babies we think aren’t good enough and think we can play God by designing babies?
We elect a President who voted four times to not allow Doctors save babies who survived induced abortions…who refused to say the Lord’s Prayer at his inauguration…and actually took the oath for real the next day WITHOUT a Bible. Who now wants ALL Doctors to give abortions regardless of their oaths to protect life or their religious feelings? Who just appointed a woman who is an Abortion Zealot as HHS Secretary.
So why are people freaking out about this designer baby thing? We gave them the green light for this horror..I say horror because millions of embryos will be discarded for this process.
The Evil One reins in this country.The Holy Mother is Crying.If we don’t stop this road to hell ALL of us will pay…and I mean really pay.

olddog   March 3rd, 2009 - 5:09 pm

With this, it’s only a matter of time before they figure out the all the genes for the various tendencies that humans have. We’ll be able to abort those that will grow up gay for example.

Stymie   March 3rd, 2009 - 10:12 pm

Wasn’t this what Hitler wanted in the 1930s…a Master Race of children?

Just wondering...   March 4th, 2009 - 9:19 am

Peter,
I notice that you denounce the “demonization” of all religions. I assume that you include Islam in that list and that those who demonize it are also worthy of criticism.

Not Stymied   March 4th, 2009 - 3:11 pm

Hitler was also involved in rocket development and jet powered fighter planes. That did not keep us from developing the best jet fighter planes in the world and some of the best rockets too, both with the help of ex-nazis.
I look forward to the day when people with degenerative genetic diseases like dwarfism, diabetes, etc are not allowed to bring children into the world with the same problems.
The problem may be self correcting as the health care systems collapse under the weight of increased population and start a government mandated triage program to save only those with the greatest chances of survival.
That will be our future if we don’t head it off soon.

SUPPORT YOUR OWN DEFECTIVE OFFSPRING   March 4th, 2009 - 3:32 pm

People who whine in FAVOR OF birthing defective offspring should have BIRTH CONTROL PUT INTO THEIR WATER.

The world already has too many people, especially too many DEFECTIVE ONES. If you insist on bringing DEFECTIVE PEOPLE onto this planet, then you’d better have enough $$$$$ to support them, because the rest of us are damned sick & tired of supporting the DREGS OF HUMANITY.

Period.

P.S. To the inevitable whiners about “government-paid abortion”: SHUT UP. This is not about abortion; it is about NOT REPRODUCING DEFECTIVE OFFSPRING. PERIOD.

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