Genetics company 23andMe was just granted a patent on technology that allows you to design a child in the same way you might a car or a house. Is this really the future of baby-making? And if so, is this a good or bad development? I’m not sure how I feel about this. I know that I would want to adopt a child if I was rich, but even if I do not care about his/her ethnicity, I do have some preconceived ideas as to how the child should look like. For example I would want them to be healthy and strong and potentially from athletic parents. Now, I also know that when someone chooses a partner they often have criteria, for example some men like Asian women. That’s also an unconscious attempt to select how the child would look like. So I am not completely against this patent but I do have some concerns. Can I choose my kid to be from Jamaican descent? I would want him to be really fast and get him to play in the EPL. \
