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February 2003

Choosing Our Children's Genetic Futures

Bioethicist Gregory Stock on the inevitability of designer babies.

By Erika Jonietz

Gregory Stock

Position: Director, University of California, Los Angeles, Program on Medicine, Technology, and Society

Issue: Designer babies. Advances in biology and medical technologies are pushing the frontiers of genetic engineering to the point where the possibility of parents' selecting specific traits for their children is closer to science fact than fiction.

Personal Point of Impact: Author, Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future

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