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Calgary Institute for the Humanities 5th Annual Lecture in Applied Ethics by Françoise Baylis, "Babies by Design"

Increasingly, people in high-income countries are being bombarded with images of “better” “healthier” “perfect” babies. We have moved from prenatal testing & test-tube babies in the 1970s, to Nobel Prize sperm banks, contract pregnancy- now genome editing. How long before parents are enticed to shop for “designer babies” in genetic “supermarkets”?

• In Person

Presented in Partnership with The Calgary Institute for the Humanities at the University of Calgary