Last month, Bloomberg reported on what seems to be the first child born following a new kind of genome-wide screening. Four embryos were screened, and the embryo selected for implantation was the one given the best genetic odds of avoiding heart disease, diabetes, cancer, and schizophrenia in adulthood. The news has been met with some concerns about the degree of control we may now have over future generations.

Publications Khush, Kiran K, James L Bernat, Richard N Pierson 3rd, Henry J Silverman, Brendan Parent, Alexandra K Glazier, Andrew B Adams, Jay A Fishman, Michael Gusmano, Wayne J Hawthorne,...

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. From Bioethics Briefings: Conscience Clauses, Health Care Providers, and ParentsConscientious objection in health care is the refusal to perform a legal role or responsibility...

Technology ethics: Technology ethics comprises values and ethical considerations that should guide regulation and oversight, protect privacy and confidentiality, and require responsible actions in the creation and use of technology....

Progress: Its Glories and Pitfalls Daniel Callahan In his new book, Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress, Stephen Pinker, a cognitive psychologist and linguist at Harvard,...

The Oxford philosopher Julian Savulescu, among others, has argued that prospective parents engaging in embryo selection using preimplantation genetic diagnosis not only may seek to have genetically enhanced children but...

Hastings Center Fellows are an elected group of individuals of outstanding accomplishment whose work has informed scholarship and/or public understanding of complex ethical issues in health, health care, life sciences...

Abstract: I consider the question of what moral obligations prospective parents owe to their future children. It is taken as an almost axiomatic premise of a wide range of philosophical...