The Perfect Child

Parents who create their own children are wrong. The first case of this occurred not too long ago at a fertility clinic in Fairfax, Virginia. A couple by the name of Monique and Scott Collins were able to pick the gender of their child. As a result, the couple had a baby girl, just like they had always dreamed (Time). This is only the start of what can occur. It is predicted that “within a …showed first 75 words of 1776 total…

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