EVERY year children die by the millions from preventable diseases like pneumonia, diarrhoea, malaria, HIV and malnutrition. Poverty and the lack of clean water, hygiene and prenatal care all contribute to the toll of premature death.
In the face of this holocaust, why would , a professor of ethics at Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, spend 279 pages of well-crafted prose defending the claim that it is ethical for parents to create “designer” children? How much effort is it ethical to devote to improving the lot of the yet-to-come when balanced against the needs of those in…
