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Choosing Smart Embryos Isn't Immoral

It would be deeply immoral to require parents to select for particular traits, but it is also wrong to deny them the chance to make life easier for their children.

Ronald Bailey | 2.14.2019 6:00 AM

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Hit & Run

Is Gene-Editing Babies Now 'Monstrously Immoral'?

Flinging around such terms is not helpful and does not advance the debate.

Ronald Bailey | 11.29.2018 4:00 PM

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Should the Government Ban Parents Using IVF from Picking Their Kid's Eye Color?

There is no compelling ethical reason to limit this exercise of reproductive liberty.

Ronald Bailey | 10.4.2018 11:20 AM

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Skin Cells Into Babies: Bioethicists Freakout Again

Will most babies be created using in vitro gametogenesis in 40 years?

Ronald Bailey | 5.17.2017 12:15 PM

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First 'Three Parent' Baby Born in Mexico

Due to FDA ban parents must resort to treatments abroad in order to have a healthy baby

Ronald Bailey | 9.28.2016 9:30 AM

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First U.S. Uterus Transplant - Bioethicists Wring Hands

Why should not men be eligible for uterine transplants?

Ronald Bailey | 3.8.2016 4:06 PM

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If People Could Genetically Modify Their Children to Be Smarter, Would They? Hell, Yes!

So argues Eugene Volokh, albeit with a bit more subtlety.

Ronald Bailey | 7.16.2015 2:51 PM

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Who Owns Frozen Human Embryos?: Nick Loeb vs. Sofia Vergara

A contract is a contract, but a more generous spirit might relent

Ronald Bailey | 4.30.2015 4:35 PM

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Science/Tech

Nobel Laureates Call For Halting Scientific and Ethical Progress

Permissionless innovation works best for both scientific and moral progress.

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2015 10:51 AM

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Three Parent Babies Approved By British Parliament. Hooray!

Naturally the usual bioluddites are eager to stop progress.

Ronald Bailey | 2.4.2015 9:17 AM

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Policy

Is It Immoral for Men to Gestate? Transgender* Women?

Recent advances in uterus transplantation will soon make this possible

Ronald Bailey | 1.30.2015 1:30 PM

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Ronald Bailey Asks If It Is Immoral to Enable Men and Transgender Women to Gestate

Just because it's new doesn't mean that it's wrong.

Reason Staff | 1.30.2015 1:30 PM

Policy

New Company Practices Virtual Eugenics

GenePeeks aids parents in their quest for healthier babies by reducing the odds of structural or genetic birth defects.

Ronald Bailey | 10.24.2014 1:30 PM

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Ronald Bailey Argues that Practicing Virtual Eugenics Is Just Great

Reason Staff | 10.24.2014 1:30 PM

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Who Cares If a Baby Has Three Parents?

Ronald Bailey | 8.26.2014 3:32 PM

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Immoral Scaremongering About Designer Babies in the New York Times

Ronald Bailey | 2.25.2014 11:05 AM

Science/Tech

Test-Tube Baby Pioneer Robert Edwards Dead at Age 87

Ronald Bailey | 4.10.2013 1:06 PM

Policy

The Ethics of Egg Freezing

What's wrong with women resetting their biological clocks?

Ronald Bailey | 5.22.2012 4:45 PM

Culture

Is Assisted Reproduction Too Risky for Kids?

The bioethics of in vitro fertilization and birth defects

Ronald Bailey | 5.1.2012 4:30 PM

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