A couple of inter-connected news stories set us off this week. First, the prominent DNA ancestry company 23andMe is teetering on the brink of collapse and considering selling off its database of 15m people’s genomes. Can someone else own your DNA, and what are the risks if genomes are passed around the economy as any other product? Next, a US start-up has apparently used UK volunteers’ genomic data to pursue its plans to offer couples the chance to screen their embryos for intelligence, beauty, and maybe more, all for a chunky sum of course. So-called ‘liberal eugenics’ is popular in some corners of philosophy and is leaking out into the real world too. Is there really anything wrong with trying to ensure the embryo you end up carrying to term has the best genes possible? What kind of laws or regulations should there be around parents selecting for intelligence, beauty, height or even sex in their own children? And what does a Christian vision for parenthood and the raising of children look like, if it’s not this hyper-controlled and commodified version sold to us by the liberal eugenicists?
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