Perversion of Science

With the advent of all the baby making technology available today, most of us were worried that prosepctive parents would be discarding, thru abortion or other means, babies that were less than perfect.  I doubt however that ANYONE envisioned this.- Designer disability
This completely perverts what is otherwise an excellent tool in PREVENTING defects.
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Some doctors are doing the opposite - making babies with made-to-order genetic defects, according to The Associated Press.

The procedure is an ethical minefield, but parents with disabilities like deafness or dwarfism say it just means making babies like themselves.
A recent Johns Hopkins survey of 137 American clinics that offer embryo screening found that four of them have done the procedure.
One of the nation's leading experts in reproductive medicine, Dr. Jamie Grifo of New York University, believes parents should be able to decide whether or not to have the procedure.
Before the embryo is implanted in the womb, a cell is removed to allow doctors to examine it for a genetic defect. In the past, such an embryo would be discarded.
But now, if the embryo contains a gene for, say, dwarfism or deafness, it is implanted in the womb.
The phrase "designer disability" was coined after two deaf lesbian psychotherapists used sperm from a deaf family friend to have two deaf children.
Cara Reynolds of Collingswood, N.J., considered having the procedure so she could have a dwarf baby.
In part, she felt she ought to be able to decide whether she could have a child that looks like her and her husband, Gibson, also a dwarf.
"You cannot tell me that I cannot have a child who's going to look like me. It's just unbelievably presumptuous, and they're playing God," she said.
But her decision was also based on the fact that the couple's newborn daughter died last year from a dwarfism-related disease called homozygous achondroplasia.