Designer Babies With Smarter Genes On The Way

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Apr 9, 2010, 6:08:04 PM4/9/10

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Designer Babies With Smarter Genes On The Way
Want another reason to get into a prestigious university? A study recently published by the Hastings Center shows couples are willing to pay more for eggs from donors who attend top ranked colleges. All things being the same, when a university has a higher average SAT score, its students are offered more for their eggs. For every increase of 100 points on the SAT, the rate of compensation increased by $2350. Aaron D. Levine of Georgia Tech, study author, examined 105 ads for egg donors published in the newspapers of 63 colleges and saw that nearly half of these requests exceeded the recommended levels of compensation. We may be years from the birth of designer babies, but these trends show that couples with the means are already willing to pay more in the hopes of getting a child with smarter genes. The world is still trying to determine how to consider and regulate the donation of parts of your body. Private organ sales, and organ trafficking, are hotly contested, and nations are trying to tightly control such trade. Blood samples, on the other hand, are taken, stored, and exchanged like baseball cards...