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We Texans like to do things our way — leave some hide on the fence rather than stay corralled, as goes a line in Wallace O. Chariton’s Texas dictionary This Dog’ll Hunt. Lately, I’ve been wondering what this ethos means for designer babies.
Reproductive technologies for animals are moving fast in our state. A physician friend recently directed me to a website of a Dallas company touting the ability to bring animals back from extinction, Jurassic Park style. A rural Texas clinic was featured in a recent article in The Atlantic for its ability to clone racehorses, cattle for the best meat and beloved family pets.
Reproductive technologies are advancing for our own species, too. In vitro fertilization miraculously allows for insemination in a petri dish. Doctors can scan embryos for some diseases and sex. But this technology is not the pinnacle, but the base of an enormous mountain, the top of which reaches godlike, dare I say Babel-like, heights.
With an embryo in a dish, scientists are now able to assess risk levels for thousands of potential...
