Future Has Parents Choosing Their Baby from Dozens of Embryos

April 19, 2018

(CBS) – Confused? You’re just getting started. There are dozens more choices for which of your embryos should be placed in the womb to become your child. That’s the future a biomedical ethics expert envisions for 20 to 40 years from now — soon enough that today’s children may face it when they start their own families. “The majority of babies of people who have good health coverage will be conceived this way,” predicts Henry Greely, a Stanford University law professor who works in bioethics.