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Disability charities say this makes the proposed legislation discriminatory, because it gives parents the right to create “designer babies” free from genetic conditions while banning couples from deliberately creating a baby with a disability.
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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle3087367.ece
Seriously, wtf.. What parent would want their kid to have that kind of disadvantage?
Though this does raise some other questions.. if knowingly choosing an embryo that has hearing problems isn't legal/ethical/whatever, what about when we know so much more about genetics that we could tell that a child from parent A and parent B would result in child C that had difficulty XYZ. Do we make it illegal for them to have a child?
They mention a case where a deaf couple chose sperm from someone with a heavy family history of deafness in order to have a kid that was deaf. If we disallow that, what about that same guy donating his sperm the old fashioned way, where they know the kid is gonna probably be deaf? Should that be disallowed too?
Like if it was known the child would for sure get Down Syndrome if parent A and parent B had a child? Do you restrict them? What if its 90% chance? 50%? 20%? Tough questions.