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Chris Jansing reports that a fertility clinic may soon be able to allow parents to pick the physical traits of their babies.

Tags: fertility, pregnant, baby, Pregnancy, birth, fetus, Eye Color, fertility clinic, in vitro, IVF, hair color, ethics, trait selection, genetics, apa

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Comments (3)

sk123, Apr 09, 2009 01:45PM

I think it would be cool to be able to pick whether to have a boy or a girl, and I'm slightly intrigued by the thought of picking out other traits, but I don't think I would ever actually do it. It seems like such a slippery slope.

alaysha, Apr 09, 2009 01:51PM

I think its horrible. I can understand picking a boy or a girl IF you already have a couple girls and want a boy or vice versa. I don't think that picking genetics traits is right at all. Babies are their own individual people and its your genes plus the

SFmonsterdark, Apr 09, 2009 04:04PM

I think this is kinda scary. Every generation or so would produce people that look alike to closely alike if our society start to deem certain characteristics "in fashion" just like baby names.

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