1. Add There's nothing wrong with designer babies: Tuesday 18 September 2012, 6:45pm to your calendar Tuesday 18 September 2012, 6:45pm There's nothing wrong with designer babies City Recital Hall Angel Place

Medical science promises a future in which it will be possible to prevent children being born with many of the diseases that currently afflict humanity. In many cases a child could be protected by refining its genetic structure at the earliest stage of life. At the same time, it is possible to select other attributes – gender, height, eye colour, etc – thus recasting the odds in the ‘lottery of life’. To some this will sound like progress. Others will be appalled – seeing this as further evidence of humanity’s arrogant assumption that it can stand above either God or Nature. Are ‘designer babies’ a boon to humankind – the product of human ingenuity applied for the common good? Or should human life remain a source of wonder – where we accept and cherish what we receive rather than shape the gift to order?

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