Twenty years on, the resulting boy is in now the national basketball squad. Accidentally he discovers how he had been conceived, and he is furious with his dad. Later this year MP's will vote on whether we should use embryos as a source of replacement cells, following the recent Donaldson report. This marks another watershed I think, on balance, we should not cross. We live at a time when biotechnology is pushing hard at the bounds of ethical norms.
Embryo selection is a case where the current law is also right.
Cross this line, and designer babies will follow. For other issues in human genetics see our SRT Human Genetics Pages .