Superbabies

I thought that the presentations on designer babies and incest were very connected. Both dealt with reproduction and concentrated on focusing the highest quality of offspring. Although the science behind developing genetically engineered babies is relatively new, the ideas have been around for a long time. In the incest presentation, they talked about keeping the "good" or "royal" blood in the family through cousin marriage, and I think that the designer babies group also discussed a "rating system" that was once used to pair certain people with alike people. They also talked about how you can be assured, through science, that your baby will indeed retain "good" traits. Compatibility and fitness to reproduce between two individuals are dealt with in these topics.
Along withe the good, there is also the bad. Designer babies and incest are both focused on keeping the bad stuff out whether it be impure blood or hereditary diseases. Basically the idea behind these two concepts seems to be to pass on the desirables, weed out the negatives, and breed to produce the highest quality of offspring possible.