Designer Babies as The Conquest of Nature

How the logic of eugenics is alive and well and awful

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Anna Louie Sussman has written a compelling article for the New York Times on preimplantation genetic testing for I.V.F. that raises a number of questions about how we understand human life, sex, and procreation. The process, P.G.T. for short, allows parents to “screen” embryos for diseases that can be “traced to a single gene…