Let's now worry about designer babies ...
/The Dawn of Intelligent Designer Babies
While selecting or editing embryos in favour of certain attributes may seem like a phenomenon of the distant future, the company Genomic Prediction in the United States has recently announced their advanced technology that would allow parents to screen for several complex traits, most controversially being low intelligence. This process would give the option of excluding embryos during in vitro fertilisation (IVF) that have a high risk of having “mental disability,” defined as an IQ of 25 points below average. While Genomic Prediction explicitly states that this will not be used to select for embryos with the potential for abnormally high intelligence, co-founder Stephen Hsu claims it is entirely feasible and states “I think people are going to demand that. If we don’t do it, some other company will.”
