It was heartening to read Professor Hugh McLachlan's letter (Emotional squeamishness over deaf baby, March 14) on the positive moral aspect of a deaf couple's request to choose an embryo destined to lead to the birth of a deaf child.
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Let parents go ahead and have a deaf child
It was heartening to read Professor Hugh McLachlan's letter (Emotional squeamishness over deaf baby, March 14) on the positive moral aspect of a deaf couple's request to choose an embryo destined to lead to the birth of a deaf child. Having mulled over the possibilities thrown up by embryo selection and the ethical dilemmas involved, my mind is made up to select, with my partner, only embryos destined to give rise to tall, intelligent, strong, blond and blue-eyed children - some readers might think this sounds familiar.
