11-11-2012, 07:32 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-11-2012, 07:35 PM by FireIceTalon.)
Two of those stories are quite moving, especially the one with the sisters. But having another baby to save a already born sick child is not the same thing as DNA manipulation, or genetically made babies. Nor is embryo selection (they even made this clear at the end of the article in which that was discussed). In both cases, there is a different set of ethical issues involved, and while there are genetic risks involved, they are still much more predictable and more easily controlled than actual designer babies. Not to mention the social consequences - having another baby to save your first child's life isn't going to potentially open doors to things like a 'master race' or an genetic elite class or creating a male (or female) dominated society.
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"Your very ideas are but the outgrowth of conditions of your bourgeois production and bourgeois property, just as your jurisprudence is but the will of your class, made into law for all, a will whose essential character and direction are determined by the economic conditions of the existence of your class." - Marx (addressing the bourgeois)