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"We can make a new one with the greatest ease-as many as we like. Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself."- Aldous Huxley, Brave New World A fertility clinic in Los Angeles is now offering designer babies . With DNA testing, the clinic can examine various embryos and select the one that meets your designer baby criteria. For example, you can select the embryo that has the DNA traits of green eyes and blonde hair. The other embryos that don’t meet your aesthetic criteria can be flushed down the drain.

Washington State will soon be the second state to legalize doctor assisted suicides. This initiative was pushed by an organization called Compassion and Choices. Here is my interview of Roland Halpern, Director of Compassion and Choices. Mr. Halpern was unable to explain the philosophy of limiting assisted suicides to six months of expected death. After all, why such an arbitrary limit? If the justification of allowing assisted suicides is that an individual should be able to make such a decision because is his life, then why have any limits? While the notion of a slippery slope can sound cliché, it frequently occurs. For example, when abortion was legalized it was assumed that abortion would only be performed in rare cases, such as rape or incest. It was never envisioned that abortion would become just another form of birth control. It was also never considered that babies could be killed up to the ninth month. Yet it happened. I fear that allowing doctor assisted suicides can similar...