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Should Parents Kill Some Unborn Babies to Get the Perfect Child?

“Have it your way” isn’t just for fast-food burgers anymore.It’s also for babies.Orchid, which labels itself as “the world’s most advanced whole genome screening for embryos during IVF,” was highlighted in a recent New York Times article headlined “This baby was carefully selected as an embryo.”Orchid, writes journalist Anna Louie Sussman, “screens embryos’ DNA for hundreds of conditions” and also “offer[s] what is known as polygenic screening, which gives parents what is essentially a risk prof