Another First - UK Clinic to Weed Out Embryos for Cosmetic Defects
Embryos killed if they have potential for unwanted disorder or characteristic
By Gudrun Schultz
LONDON, United Kingdom,
May 8, 2007

(LifeSiteNews.com) - Doctors at a British fertility clinic will begin screening embryos for cosmetic defects, the first time a license to do so has been issued in the country.

A business man and his wife applied to London’s Bridge Centre family clinic for screening procedures to ensure an embryo would be created without the father’s genetic eye disorder--the man and his father both have an eye condition which gives them a severe squint.

Doctors at the clinic were granted a license to screen for the cosmetic condition by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA). the rest

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