“Sex is for fun. Embryo screening is for babies.”
That’s one motto of industrial eugenicist Noor Siddiqui, whose company makes babies in a lab, investigates their genes, eliminates the undesirable ones, and implants the desirable ones.
If you make babies the old-fashioned way, Siddiqui warned, you could curse your child with mental illness, obesity, brown eyes, or average height. If, instead, you cut her a massive check, you could help your child “win the genetic lottery.”
Siddiqui paints her corporation as a humanitarian effort. She told the New York Times that she was inspired to start it because of her mother’s blindness, which was caused by a random gene mutation.
The world has always had mad scientists. The United States has always had ruthless capitalists who
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