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1Ethics Institute, Dartmouth College, Haldeman Center, 27 North Main Street, Hanover, NH, USA. ronald.m.green@dartmouth.edu.
Abstract:
Advances in genomic science and reproductive medicine are hastening the day when parents will be able to select or design desired traits for their children. This possibility raises a series of challenging questions: will our ability to choose our children's biological inheritance deform parenting? Will it diminish children's freedom by making them creatures of their parents' whims? Will it widen social divisions, creating a 'genobility'? Will it recreate the horrors of early twentieth century eugenics? In this perspective article I reply that while these are all important questions, the answers do not necessarily rule out the judicious use of human genetic engineering.
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