Designer babies

The "perfect" designer baby is almost reality in prenatal testing, but what if doctors started doing the opposite? USA Today writes:

Creating made-to-order babies with genetic defects would seem to be an ethical minefield, but to some parents with disabilities — say, deafness or dwarfism — it just means making babies like them.

And a recent survey of U.S. clinics that offer embryo screening suggests it's already happening.

Three percent, or 4 clinics surveyed, said they have provided the costly, complicated procedure to help families create children with a disability.

It is an ethical minefield indeed. Call me old-fashioned and/or orthodox, but I don’t think it’s right. I do not believe in procedures for “fixing” things in either way. What is there is there. Genetic manipulation is just very bad and when we start going down that road no one knows where it will ends. In my opinion the money used in this should be used on finding cures and treatment for diseases and disabilities that already exist. Not creating some kind of super human race.