Abstract:
The phrase “designer babies” refers to genetic interventions
into pre-implantation embryos in the attempt to influence
the traits the resulting children will have. At present, this
is not possible, but many people are horrified by the mere
thought that parents might want to choose their children’s
genes, especially for non-disease traits. I want to argue that
the objections are usually not well articulated, and that even
when they are, it’s far from obvious that such interventions
would be wrong.
