{"id":43979,"date":"2014-05-08T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/rich_could_pay_to_have_brighter_babies_says_lord_robert_winston\/"},"modified":"2014-05-08T15:00:07","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T15:00:07","slug":"rich_could_pay_to_have_brighter_babies_says_lord_robert_winston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43979","title":{"rendered":"(Daily Mail) The Rich could pay to have brighter babies, says Lord Robert Winston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthroughs in IVF could \u201d\u02dcthreaten our humanity\u2019 by prompting parents to demand designer babies, Robert Winston has warned.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>And he claimed a \u201d\u02dctoxic\u2019 climate had been created by the desperation of childless couples and the pace of scientific developments in the booming IVF industry.<\/p>\n<p>Warning of a resurgence in eugenics, the broadcaster and Labour peer said there was a \u201d\u02dcreal risk that we could see that kind of attitude in our humanity occurring again\u2019.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-2620228\/Fertility-gurus-IVF-warning-Rich-pay-brighter-babies-says-Lord-Winston.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Breakthroughs in IVF could \u201d\u02dcthreaten our humanity\u2019 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<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=43979\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,40,50,175,101,582,589,149,199,168,104,114,96,98,593,95,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-economics-politics","category-international-news-commentary","category-anthropology","category-children","category-consumerconsumer-spending","category-corporationscorporate-life","category-economy","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-health-medicine","category-law-legal-issues","category-life-ethics","category-marriage-family","category-personal-finance","category-science-technology","category-theology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}