So I just read
http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/justic...-200803131049/.
It essentially criticises the government for
Quote:
Persons or embryos that are known to have a gene, chromosome or mitochondrion abnormality involving a significant risk that a person with the abnormality will have or develop a serious physical or mental disability, a serious illness or any other serious medical condition must not be preferred to those that are not known to have such an abnormality.
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saying that people should be allowed to choose their embryo if they are fully aware of the consequences.
Now while I would normally be in favour of allowing people to do what they want something about this doesn't sit right with me. In their example it refers to a couple who tried for a deaf child. Maybe I just find it wrong because I imagine being deaf harder than it actually is, but I would never purposefully give my children haemophilia like I have, and I would guess that is far easier to live with.
If they wanted to make themselves deaf then fair enough, but to do it to someone else just feels wrong.