Wednesday, January 17, 2007
"Nobody Wants an Ugly Baby"
Abraham Centre of Life, a Texas-based lab has apparently become the "world's first human embryo bank" and has already impregnated two women, from Canada and California. A British couple will begin "treatment" in the next couple of weeks.
A UK official with the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority had this to say:
"There is, obviously, a major ethical debate here. In the UK, we have very high regulatory standards, but in the US there are none."
An employee of the Abraham Centre comments:
"If I do discriminate, it's that I only want healthy, intelligent people. At the end of the day, nobody wants an ugly baby."
technorati tags:biotech, genomics, pregnancy, birth, reproduction, health, IVF
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