@Ginger Penguin
There's a difference between selecting a deaf embryo and deafening a hearing one, though. If you're genetically deaf, then being born deaf is the only chance you'll get to exist at all - so it's hard to see how you'd have been harmed by not being implanted. So the "How could they do that" argument seems misplaced, unless you think that the deaf are better off not being born at all. It's harder than you'd think to establish why choosing a deaf embryo would be wrong - the firmest claim I can formulate is that there's something less-than-admirable about the parents who'd make such a choice, but I'm not happy even with that - I can't say why they're less than admirable, and even if my claim's right, it doesn't amount to saying that they're wrong.

@K2k6: I have family in Dundee...
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Wed 23 Apr 2008, 13:34, Reply)