Document Type

Article

Publication Date

7-2009

Abstract

Some argue that genetic enhancements and environmental enhancements are not importantly different: environmental enhancements such as private schools and chess lessons are simply the old-school way to have a designer baby. I argue that there is an important distinction between the two practices—a distinction that makes state restrictions on genetic enhancements more justifiable than state restrictions on environmental enhancements. The difference is that parents have no settled expectations about genetic enhancements.

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This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published in The Journal of Medical Ethics in July, 2009, available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/jme.2008.026435

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