New reproductive technologies promise a world in which prospective parents can choose individual characteristics such as gender, eye and hair color in their children before birth. But a Los Angeles clinic just pulled back from offering such choices because of a public uproar. Is there a legal and ethical infrastructure in place to govern ‘designer babies’?
Guests:
John Robertson, professor and Vinson and Elkins chair in law at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law
Osagie Obasogie, associate professor of law at the University of California Hastings College of the Law, visiting scholar at UCSF and senior fellow at the Center for Genetics and Society
Lori Andrews, distinguished professor of law at the Chicago-Kent College of Law and director of the Institute for Science, Law and Technology
Terri Somers, biotech writer for the San Diego Union Tribune
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