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August 28, 2025

The Pagan Wish for Designer Babies

Embryo screening vs. the Judeo-Christian tradition.

Recently the biotech entrepreneur Noor Siddiqui has been hawking the wares of her company, Orchid, which specializes in the “screening” of embryos for genetic disease and promises one day soon to be able to weed out such conditions as autism and obesity. In one interview, she asserted that “sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies. It is going to be insane not to screen for these things.” Charles Camosy comments: 

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