DAYS OF LOT: Era of “Designer-Babies” is accelerating, Sex no longer needed!

DAYS OF LOT: Era of “Designer-Babies” is accelerating, Sex no longer needed!

In 20 to 40 years from now, would-be parents will be able to choose from dozens of already artificially created embryos before having a child based on their preferred criteria and potential, says a bioethicist and author of the book, “The End of Sex and the Future of Human Reproduction.”  Henry Greely, a Stanford University law professor, is the author who sees in ongoing research the future potential to choose children with less potential for future disease, more for athleticism or even a preferred eye color.
“The majority of babies of people who have good health coverage will be conceived this way,” he predicts. The research Greely points to so far only involves mice in which ordinary cells are turned into sperm and eggs. If such technology can be replicated in humans, Greely believes, most babies would be born using it by the time today’s children are reproducing. If so, it would mean a woman who wants to get pregnant could produce dozens more eggs without harvesting some of her own ovaries.  READ MORE