If you’re hoping to have a baby girl with blond hair and blue eyes, then pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD, could be your solution. Fertility Institutes, a clinic in Los Angeles, claims that it will soon be able to help couples select gender and physical traits of their babies. This procedure has been used for averting life-threatening diseases in children, but Fertility Institutes plans to use the science for creating designer babies.
The PGD procedure is a technique where a three-day-old embryo is tested to see if it carries a particular genetic disease. Those embryos free of that disease are implanted in the mother’s womb. Fertility Institutes is looking to take the procedure further for purposes of "cosmetic medicine," as they call it. PGD is currently without state or federal regulations in the U.S.
