Published April 14, 2025
“Sex is for fun, and embryo screening is for babies.”
Thus spoke Noor Siddiqui, founder of Orchid, a company that genetically screens human embryos. She added that, “It’s going to become insane not to screen for these things.” As The New York Times explained, this “presumably refers to conditions like obesity and autism, both of which Orchid says it can screen for. What she and others who run screening companies tend to talk about even less is that such things could also include traits like intellectual ability and height.” Welcome to the world of designer babies.
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Nathanael Blake, Ph.D. is a Fellow in the Life and Family Initiative at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. His research interests include American political theory, Christian political thought, and the intersection of natural law and philosophical hermeneutics. His published scholarship has included work on Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Alasdair MacIntyre, Russell Kirk and J.R.R. Tolkien.
