ABSTRACT
On 5 November 1995, there appeared in the Sunday Times an article announcing dramatically that,
British doctors will for the first time use a test to select cancer-free babies next month. The procedure raises the prospect of designer babies that will be allowed to develop only if their genetic make-up is approved. In next month's test, embryos of a woman with a high risk of passing on a form of bowel cancer will be screened and only healthy ones will be reimplanted. The same technique is likely to be used within two years to screen test tube embryos for a predisposition to inherited breast cancer. 2
