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(Daily Mail) The Rich could pay to have brighter babies, says Lord Robert Winston

Posted on May 8, 2014 by Kendall Harmon

Breakthroughs in IVF could ”˜threaten our humanity’ by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned.

The fertility pioneer said that he feared a time when the rich could alter the appearance and ability of children by tinkering with their genes.

And he claimed a ”˜toxic’ climate had been created by the desperation of childless couples and the pace of scientific developments in the booming IVF industry.

Warning of a resurgence in eugenics, the broadcaster and Labour peer said there was a ”˜real risk that we could see that kind of attitude in our humanity occurring again’.

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