What if you could screen embryos for diseases before they became babies? What if you had the power to choose the traits your baby would have? Would you use it? These practically polar opposite ...

Want a bespoke baby? Check the beauty, brains, or brawn boxes on the embryo order form. Genetic tinkering is no longer science fiction — it’s a market without legal guidelines or societal buy-in. But ...

Journal of Applied Philosophy, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1996), pp. 51-61 (11 pages) The aim of this article is to determine whether genetic engineering is ever acceptable. The prominent arguments which have ...

Special ordering babies certainly sounds like science fiction. And for the near future, it probably is. However, the scientific community is beginning to grapple with the eventual ethical challenges ...

The Coos Bay Public Library is pleased to sponsor a Chautauqua presentation by Gregory L. Fowler, of Oregon Health and Sciences University, entitled "Redefining Humanity: Moral and Ethical ...

Raghav Gupta is majoring in neuroscience with a minor in philosophy and is a 2022-23 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. Views are his own. During the Christmas of ...