Want to Genetically Design Your Baby? Health Insurance Won't Pay for It
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March 12, 2009
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)A Los Angeles fertility clinic plans to create genetically-designed children, allowing parents to choose their newborn's eye and hair color, skin tone, and other physical characteristics.
Want a daughter with blonde hair and green eyes, or a son with a dark complexion and blue eyes? Infant "trait selection" can make it happen.
The Frankenstein-esque project was pioneered by Dr. Jeff Steinberg, who played a role in creating the first test tube baby in 1978.
The first "cosmetic medicine" newborn is expected to be delivered next year. The cost for the procedure is estimated to cost upwards of $18,000. And no, the procedure probably won't be covered by your health insurance plan.
Has modern science finally lost its marbles? Will "designer children" become a standard of the 21st century?
Whatever the case, this story proves that anything's possible in L.A.--even a generation of genetically-engineered cookie-cutter children.
Let's just hope they're not all named Ken and Barbie...
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