Deaf lesbians and designer babiesGenetic tests for disabilities are increasingly becoming available for
couples with a family history of genetic disease to select healthy
offspring. But some couples wish to select for disability. On
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Savulescu discusses the ethics of the case of a deaf lesbian couple
who deliberately created a child by using the sperm of a deaf friend
with five generations of deafness in his family. Freedom, he writes,
includes the freedom to do what others disapprove of or judge wrong,
provided the exercise of freedom does not harm others.
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