Deaf lesbians and designer babies
Genetic tests for disabilities are increasingly becoming
available for couples with a family history of genetic disease to select healthy offspring. But some couples wish to select for disability. On p 771 Savulescu discusses the ethics of the case of a
deaf lesbian couple who deliberately created a child by using the sperm
of a deaf friend with five generations of deafness in his family.
Freedom, he writes, includes the freedom to do what others disapprove
of or judge wrong, provided the exercise of freedom does not harm others.
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