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Last month, a clinic in California was shut down because they released an offer to the public to allow parents to choose their babies hair and eye color. "If nobody gets hurt and everybody has access," says Hughes, 'then genetic modification is perfectly fine, and restricting it is an assault on reproductive freedom." "It’s in the same category as abortion. If you think women have the right to control their own bodies, then they should be able to make this choice," he said. "There should be no law restricting the kind of kids people have, unless there’s gross evidence that they’re going to harm that kid, or harm society." People argued that Hughes' views were unmoral. William Kearnes, a medical genetist that came up with the techniques Fertility Institutes used for comestic purposes, was disgusted at the idea of designer babies.


http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/03/designerdebate/