Dr. Eric M. Meslin directs the Center for Bioethics and serves as associate dean for bioethics and professor of medicine, as well as of medical and molecular genetics, at the Indiana University School of Medicine in Indianapolis. He is also professor of philosophy in the School of Liberal Arts and co-director of the Indiana University-Purdue […]

Josephine Johnston is a research scholar and director of research operations at the Hastings Center in Garrison, N.Y. Her writings include “Judging Octomon” in the Hastings Review and “Reproductive Health: Control and Use of Gametes and Embryos” and “Reproductive Health: Storage and Disposal of Gametes and Embryos” for the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons (London, UK) […]

David Goldstein is a professor of genetics and development at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and director of Columbia University’s Institute for Genomic Medicine in partnership with New York-Presbyterian in New York, N.Y. Goldstein has predicted there will be a growing demand for “designer babies.”

Dr. Jeffrey Botkin is professor of pediatrics and adjunct professor of human genetics at the University of Utah School of Medicine in Salt Lake City. He previously served as chair of the Committee on Bioethics for the American Academy of Pediatrics.

Read a Feb. 12, 2009, column in The Wall Street Journal about pre-implantation genetic diagnosis and the possibility of making “designer babies.”

Read an April 19, 2009, article from the The Washington Times about the increasing popularity of embryo adoption.

Read an article about the “Octomom” case from the May-June 2009 issue of The Hastings Center Report.

Read an article about the “Octomom” case from the May-June 2009 issue of The Hastings Center Report.

Read an article about the “Octomom” case from the May-June 2009 issue of The Hastings Center Report.