Monday, November 16, 2009

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Some people may not know it, but paying couples having been able to select their offspring’s gender since 2001. The largest organization involved in this process is Fertility Institutes. They have a 100% success rate. Fertility Institutes selects gender along with screening for breast cancer, cystic fibrosis, and over 70 other diseases. However, Fertility Institutes plans to take there technologies to the next step and begin to select hair and eye color. There is a lot of controversy that comes with this idea. The Pope himself stated "the obsessive search for the perfect child." The Roman Catholic Church objections to all PGD processes because it invariably involves the destruction of blastocysts. (111)

http://www.hplusmagazine.com/articles/bio/great-designer-baby-controversy-%E2%80%9909

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