Book Reviews: Babies by Design: The Ethics of Genetic Choice
and The Case against Perfection: Ethics in the Age of Genetic Engineering
and 
December 19, 2007
We sit on the cusp of a new world in which the ability to genetically engineer our children, as well as re-upholster our own organs, promises to become routine rather than exotic. Just as old definitions of life proved ethically problematic once medicine understood pregnancy better (would people fight over abortion if everyone agreed a child before birth is not conscious?), our traditional ideas of how we should control our bodies and those of our children look increasingly fragile in the face of “reprogenetics,” the new medical field that unites reproductive and genetic technology. (Miami Herald)
