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Publicado: 25 de septiembre de 2012
For years, reproductive specialists have been helping people become parents, even enabling them to choose the sex of their baby.
One fertility doctor is taking things a step further, offeringwhat some are calling "designer babies," as Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman reports.
If you could design your baby's features, would you? According to L.A.'s Fertility Institute,prospective parents can select eye color, hair color and more.
The technology is called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD. It was created to screen for disease, then used for gender selection.Now this clinic plans to allow parents to select physical traits.
"I would predict that by next year, we will have determined sex with 100 percent certainty on a baby, and we will have determinedeye color with about an 80 percent accuracy rate," said fertility specialist Dr. Jeff Steinberg, director of Fertility Institute.
Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg is a pioneer in in-vitro fertilization.
"Ithink it's very important that we not bury our head in the sand and pretend these advances are not happening," Dr. Steinberg said.
Kirsten and Matt Landon used his clinic to select the sex oftheir daughter. Choosing other genetic traits intrigues them.
"I would have considered trait selection as an option, but not necessarily have gone with it," Matt Landon said.
A recent U.S. surveysuggests most people support the notion of building a better baby when it comes to eliminating serious diseases. But Dr. Steinberg says using technology for cosmetic reasons shouldn't scare people away."Of course, once I've got this science, am I not to provide this to my patients? I'm a physician. I want to provide everything science gives me to my patients," Dr. Steinberg said.
"But is thata good thing?" Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez asked Dr. Arthur Caplan, Ph.D, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Let me quote Dr. Steinberg. He just...
One fertility doctor is taking things a step further, offeringwhat some are calling "designer babies," as Early Show national correspondent Hattie Kauffman reports.
If you could design your baby's features, would you? According to L.A.'s Fertility Institute,prospective parents can select eye color, hair color and more.
The technology is called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis or PGD. It was created to screen for disease, then used for gender selection.Now this clinic plans to allow parents to select physical traits.
"I would predict that by next year, we will have determined sex with 100 percent certainty on a baby, and we will have determinedeye color with about an 80 percent accuracy rate," said fertility specialist Dr. Jeff Steinberg, director of Fertility Institute.
Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg is a pioneer in in-vitro fertilization.
"Ithink it's very important that we not bury our head in the sand and pretend these advances are not happening," Dr. Steinberg said.
Kirsten and Matt Landon used his clinic to select the sex oftheir daughter. Choosing other genetic traits intrigues them.
"I would have considered trait selection as an option, but not necessarily have gone with it," Matt Landon said.
A recent U.S. surveysuggests most people support the notion of building a better baby when it comes to eliminating serious diseases. But Dr. Steinberg says using technology for cosmetic reasons shouldn't scare people away."Of course, once I've got this science, am I not to provide this to my patients? I'm a physician. I want to provide everything science gives me to my patients," Dr. Steinberg said.
"But is thata good thing?" Early Show co-anchor Maggie Rodriguez asked Dr. Arthur Caplan, Ph.D, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Let me quote Dr. Steinberg. He just...
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