I read about this in the Journal de Montreal today and wanted to find an English version before commenting on it:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070528/hl_afp/swedenresearchgenetics
I don't know what to think of it (copy the article title and plug it into google, there's some pretty wild commentary out there). I in some ways support advances like this that can help people (that's why I wanted to go to med school: to help people) but where do you draw the line? Placental blood and cells will no longer be needed for the new baby but this is a child that was essentially created to save another child. How much harm will this do to designer baby in the long run? Will this child be treated as inferior? What happens if the sick child dies during the pregnancy? What sort of psychological effects will this have?
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