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基因工程为父母定制“完美”婴儿

“设计婴儿”不再是科幻小说里才有的场景。随着受孕和生育技术的发展，父母以及临床医生们已经开始筛选“婴儿”，他们能够检测出胚胎中带有的遗传性疾病基因，甚至包括一些轻微的，容易被忽略的基因缺陷，比如导致家族乳腺癌史的基因。接下来父母们难不成可以决定自己的小孩长什么样了吧？伦理学教授兼基因技术的倡导者Ronald Green 将就这一问题，与来自加利福尼亚基因和社会研究中心的Marcy Darnovsky进行激烈的讨论，在这场智慧的较量中，他们将从政治，社会，和基因保险等多个方面对这一话题进行展开。

in Talk of the Nation by Neal Conan, 15 April 2008
"Designer babies" aren't just science fiction anymore. As reproductive technology advances, parents and clinicians have begun screening embryos for genetic diseases, including less immediately serious genetic aberrations like the genes for familial breast cancer. Will parents be making cosmetic decisions about what their children look like next? Ethics professor and technology advocate Ronald Green squares off with Marcy Darnovsky of the California Center for Genetics and Society in this contentious intellectual debate spanning the political, social, and insurance-related implications of reproductive genetics.