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Although I love technology, sometimes people get a little weird with it. Why choose your child's gender? Where is the fun in that?

Some of the more detailed "fine-tuning" of children is still a couple of decades away. Have they mapped all the genes for eye color and have they ascertained that some horrible genetic disorder isn't lurking in the eye color gene sequence? [img]graemlins/1ponder.gif[/img] Slow but steady progress should be made, but you know that if countries like Britain and the US aren't doing the research then other countries will. Needless to say, I strongly disagree with our current administration's refusal to support genetic/stem-cell research.

One statement I didn't like from the article:

from the article: The MPs also suggest there should no longer be a need to consider the suitability of parents under "welfare of the child" considerations when approving couples for IVF treatment, because it is discriminatory.

There should still be a consideration of the suitability of the parents, because plenty of people who shouldn't have children do have them anyway. That is a topic for another thread, though. [img]graemlins/beigesmilewinkgrin.gif[/img]