A Baby, Please. Blond, Freckles — Hold the Colic

Guatam Naik writes in the Wall Street Journal:

Laboratory Techniques That Screen for Diseases in Embryos Are Now Being Offered to Create Designer Children

Want a daughter with blond hair, green eyes and pale skin?

A Los Angeles clinic says it will soon help couples select both gender and physical traits in a baby when they undergo a form of fertility treatment. The clinic, Fertility Institutes, says it has received “half a dozen” requests for the service, which is based on a procedure called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD . . .