The Future: six drivers of global change Part 110
394 embryos for such traits as hair
Hvistendahl, "Will Gattaca Come True?"; Kleiner, "Designer Babies."
395 and eye color
Kleiner, "Designer Babies."
396 skin complexion
Ibid.
397 "98.1 percent of death-row inmates do"
David Eagleman, "The Brain on Trial," Atlantic, July/August 2011.
398 yet another round of difficult ethical choices
Leroi, "The Future of Neo-Eugenics."
399 markers a.s.sociated with hundreds of diseases before implantation
Drew Halley, "Prenatal Screening Could Eradicate Genetic Disease, Replace Natural Conception," Singularity Hub, July 21, 2009.
400 preserved for potential later implantation
Denise Grady, "Parents Torn over the Fate of Frozen Embryos," New York Times, December 4, 2008.
401 women who undergo the in vitro fertilization procedure
Ibid.; Laura Bell, "What Happens to Extra Embryos After IVF?," CNN, September 1, 2009, http://articles.cnn.com/2009-09-01/health/extra.ivf.embryos_1_embryos-fertility-patients-fertility-clinics?_s=PM:HEALTH.
402 to improve the odds that one will survive
Tiffany Sharples, "IVF Study: Two Embryos No Better Than One," Time, March 30, 2009.
403 in vitro fertilization than in the general population
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, "Contribution of a.s.sisted Reproductive Technology and Ovulation-Inducing Drugs to Triplet and Higher-Order Multiple Births-United States, 19801997," MMWR, June 23, 2000.
404 The United Kingdom has set a legal limit on the number of embryos
Sarah Boseley, "IVF Clinics Told to Limit Embryo Implants to Curb Multiple Births," Guardian, January 6, 2004.
405 Auxogyn, is using digital imaging
Reproductive Science Center, "Auxogyn," http://rscbayarea.com/for-physicians/auxogyn.
406 select the embryo that is most likely to develop
Yahoo Finance News, "Auxogyn and Hewitt Fertility Center Announce First Availability of New Non-Invasive Early Embryo Viability a.s.sessment (Eeva) Test in the European Union," September 17, 2012, http://finance.yahoo.com/news/auxogyn-hewitt-fertility-center-announce-060000428.html.
407 to allow the pregnant woman to control the choice on abortion
Leroi, "The Future of Neo-Eugenics."
408 right to require a pregnant woman to have an abortion
Ibid.
409 so significant that they justify such experiments
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, "Stem Cell Research Around the World," July 17, 2012, http://www.pewforum.org/Science-and-Bioethics/Stem-Cell-Research-Around-the-World.aspx.
410 Shinya Yamanaka at Kyoto University