＂Going Against God＂ - Controversial Embryo Engineering Sparks Global Outrage Over New Tech
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Fertility startup that screens embryos to predict height, intelligence, and disease sparks debate with GreyGenes campaign. Plus, why Adam and Kaitlyn are open to the idea of designer babies, and why they don t think it's a good idea.
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Fertility startup that screens embryos to predict height, intelligence, and disease sparks debate with gray genes campaign.
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I'm so excited today to announce the launch of Nucleus Embryo,
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a genetic optimization software that helps parents give their children the best possible start in life.
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This announcement also marks the first time a company has openly partnered with a couple
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to help them optimize their embryos based on intelligence.
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For me, the launch of Nucleus Embryo is deeply personal.
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My parents are immigrants from Iran who came to America with nothing but conviction that me and my siblings would have more.
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They sacrificed, struggled, and made bold choices that opened doors for me I could never have imagined.
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But my parents, or anyone, couldn't change what they did.
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So this startup he started, Iranian guy, screening to predict a baby's height intelligence that sparked controversy,
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Nucleus Genomes, blanketed Big Apple subway stations with billboards this week as part of their
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Have Your Best Baby campaign, encouraging prospective parents to build generational health.
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The company has also posted flyers outside American Eagle flagship in Soho reading,
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These Babies Have Great Genes, a reference to that retailer Sidney Sweeney's commercial that,
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Nucleus offers customers access to genetic optimization software, allowing them to analyze, compare,
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and select their embryos based on 2,000 genetic predictions.
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The technology not only screens the potential health conditions, but also physical traits,
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such as eyes, hair color, causing critics to claim the company is using IVF to create designer babies.
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That post prompted heated debate about Nucleus, while others are describing the technology as terrifying, dystopian.
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However, Defenders hit back claiming the company was simply offering more options to parents.
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Wouldn't you want your child to have the best possible outcome?
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One asks, you're going through the IVF process anyway.
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Why would you just pick a random embryo instead of the best possible one out of your lot?
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And whenever you play choose the winner, I'm really against that.
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I understand that people really turn to a lot of things when you really want to have kids.
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Kim and I were considering, you know, adoption.
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You know, we didn't get there real tragically with our first child.
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And, you know, so we refer to like Bailey as our second child.
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And we understand the pain of wanting a child so badly.
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But when you sit there and you listen to the IVF people when they told us, they said, well, you got to take these injections every day and you may get multiple embryos, but then we'll go do a selective reduction.
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Well, if you've got sextuplets, you may not want that.
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So you're going to say, hey, you're pregnant with sextuplets.
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Now through genetics, if they can tell propensity toward height or things like that, I don't know.
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I can see why people would want a healthy child.
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You and your girl are sitting there and you're a sports guy.
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You know, if you had a choice to choose the height of your kid to be as detailed as possible, six, seven, you choose the look, you choose all that.
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Would you want to be able to have the option to do that?
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Look, the most important thing that if my girl is pregnant and she gives it a baby, when the baby's born, is that it's not black.
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Other than that, I think the market is going to determine if this is a viable option or not.
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It didn't affect his mental ability or his emotional ability or his spiritual ability.
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I'm sure my grandma, if she could go back in time and say, yeah, I don't want my son to have cerebral palsy, she would have done that.
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When I was born, his whole thing was, is he healthy or not?
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They're like, he's totally healthy, but he might be gay.
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I was like, listen, Dad, why would you even bring that up?
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If you're going to have designer handbags, if you're going to have designer dogs, like Tom Brady just duplicated his dog or whatever he did, I'm sure people are going to be very comfortable having designer babies.
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So as long as a baby is healthy, that's the most important thing.
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And as long as it's your kid, that's probably the second most important thing.
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You know, I don't like the whole taking children and making them into like Build-A-Bears.
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God made every single one of us tall, short, bad, whatever it is.
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I don't even want to talk about it or send it to Rob about this kid who was born and the sores.
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But he's like, God, I am the way that I am to make other people that are going through stuff and struggling.
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And I'm giving them like, you know, God made like David in the Bible, short, and throwing a rock.
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I don't think doing this and going against God, it is what it is.
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It's a slippery slope, but I'm not a fan of it.
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How much do you think something like this costs?
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I have a friend that probably spent a couple hundred thousand dollars to have kids.
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And by the way, can we just acknowledge another Iranian entrepreneur making a contribution in America?
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If you're Iranian and you can't grow a beard, don't try to.
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It's just, it's a known, like, it's very known.
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And by the way, don't manek me and tell them to come to Turkey, I'll give you a beard.
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But I'm not coming to Turkey to grow a beard here and come back.
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