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...response was immediate and enormous. The market for organic enhancement of newly fertilized embryos quickly overtook infertility treatment. Ironically, most of the prospective parents who now crowded the waiting room at the St. Gen "fertility" clinic had no fertility problems...
...give your child the best possible start in life?" was the tease. A few seconds of eye focus on the ad automatically brought viewers to St. Gen's home page, where they could see the full pitch...
...outcry from long-standing critics was also immediate. They pointed out that St. Gen's "enhancement" technology added new genes to every cell in a child's body. Furthermore, there was a very good chance the child would pass these genetic alterations on to her children as well. "Wasn't this simply germ-line genetic engineering with a new name?" they asked wryly...
...Gen spokeswoman responded that anyone could call the technology whatever they wanted, but Organic Enhancement was the term St. Genevieve had chosen to use. "This is entirely appropriate," she said with a straight face, "since the DNA molecules added to embryos are totally organic." She noted also that the treatment was "all-natural," since the added genes were produced naturally by cultured cells and were indistinguishable from those found in other members of the human population...
Other panelists are retired Army Gen. Robert W. Riscassi, former Commander-in-Chief of the United Nations Command; Pete McCloskey, a former U.S. Representative from California; Donald P. Gregg, former U.S. Ambassador to Korea; retired Army Col. Young O. Kim and Don Oberdorfer, an accomplished journalist. Most of the panelists served in the military in Korea at some point in their careers...