Improving the genetics of offspring

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Intervening in the making of babies will be the most important issue facing the next generation.  We will have the capacity to change behavior that undermines social and personal wellbeing.  A later Q & A version of Prof Savulescu's persuasive argument for genetic modification.
http://media.philosophy.ox.ac.uk/bioethicsbites/Savulescu.mp3

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