Your article quotes a pediatrician as saying, “we’re moving to selection on the basis of a trait that is of no benefit to the child to be born.” I disagree. The child to be born would have the benefit of a healthy older sibling. Even saving the parents from the trauma of a dying child is a benefit to the new child.
Jay M. Pasachoff Williams College Williamstown, Mass.
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