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What’s Wrong with Selecting for Maleness or White Skin?

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What’s Wrong? is grateful to Rivka Weinberg (Scripps College) for the following original contribution.

What’s Wrong with Selecting for Maleness or White Skin?

Prenatal genetic diagnosis and implantation makes it possible to screen embryos for specific genes or traits and then implant only the embryos with the desired genes or traits. This process has been used to select for gender, for bone marrow compatible with a sick sibling in need of a bone marrow transplant, and to select non-deaf or deaf embryos. Eventually, it might be possible to select for specific traits such as blue eyes or athleticism. Is anything wrong with any uses of PGD? And, if so, what’s wrong?
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