Arguments For Savior Siblings

The next argument regarding savior siblings is that permitting the deliberate creation of savior siblings would be to step onto a slippery slope towards allowing “designer babies”. The idea is that this technique is a first step towards allowing parents to use embryo testing to choose specific characteristics of their baby such as eye or hair color. This is a fairly simple argument that exists out of fear of overuse of technology. In an article written by Allison Ford, she explains that although PGD may seem like a “miracle”, it may have real-world implications. She questions what would stop a couple from discarding an embryo based on sex if it is legal to discard an embryo based on faulty genes. Approximately forty-two percent of fertility