Comments on: "Designer Babies" Ethical?

L.A.'s Fertility Institute Says Prospective Parents Can Choose Physical Traits, Not Just Gender

[credibility2]

...so, if you want a kid to have blue eyes, but there's no blue eye dna in either the male or female, how exactly are these doctor's going to fabricate blue eye dna? This is as despicable as IFV and surrogacy. It's not nice to fool with nature. Are we going to call these so-called hybrid babies "franken-kids"?

[Cru09]

Don't panic, this is still natural selection.
Parents will now only have themselves to blame if they're unhappy with their children.
Parents will also have a limited perspective on whether picking fair skin and eyes may leave their children prone to skin cancers. You can't tell with these things, they will have unintended results.
I say let them, the competition is natural we'll just have to wait and see how they cope with selection.

[FatNSassy113]

Every gene in the gene pool served a purpose at one time. How do we know they will not be useful again? Driven by pharma scare campaigns, no doubt everyone would chose thin kids. What a hoot it would be though if we did that, suffered massive food shortages, and the population died off because of vanity!

[colt8881]

Sure why not.

I want a boy thats going to be 6' 4'' with muscular build and dark hair and green eyes. He will be an NFL player and make millions.

[brigantine9]

Isnt this what the Nazis were doing?

[koko98-2009]

Kids today are the last generation that will have kids the old fashioned way. Their grandchildren will be genetically engineered. Economics will drive this industry the way it drives everything else. Eyes, hair, body type, sex, sexual orientation, just fill out a form and wait nine months and PRESTO! Made to order children. A chilling vision of things to come.