The Quest for Desi gner Children 159

to Our Children, Gregory Stock and John Campbell(ed.)(New York , 2000), p. 121.

21.” See, e.g, Leon R. Kass ,“L‘Chaim and Its Limits: Why Not Immortality," First Things, May 2001, 113: 17-24.

22. Nicholas Wade ,“Arguments Over Life and the Need for Death, ” New York Times , March 7, 2000, D4(quoting Dr. Leon R. Kass ).

Gregory Stock , Redesigning Humans: Our Inevitable Genetic Future(Boston , 002), pp. 95-96

24. The scientific issues pertaining to enhancement genetic engineering are summanzed in Walters and Palmer, The Ethics of Human Gene Therapy, pp. 99-108.

25. Lee M. Silver, Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family(New York , 1998), p. 273. See also id., p. 297.

26. Azriel Rosenfeld ,“Judaism and Gene Design, ” Tradition, Fall 1972, 13:2, 71-80, reprinted in Jewish Bioethics, Fred Rosner and J. David Bleich (ed.), Hoboken , 2000, p. 437

27. Fred Rosner ,“Genetic Engineering and Judaism,” Jewish Bioethics, p- 45}; Rosner , Modern Medicine and Jewish Ethics(New York , 1980), p. 188.

28. Freundel,* Judaism ,” pp. 124, 134.

29. Freundel,“Gene Modification Technology,” pp. 120-121. Earlier, Rabbi Freundel expressed a more negative opinion of genetic enhancement stating;

“...[FJundamental alternation of personality would seem to threaten destruction of the individual and would raise‘Brave New World’— style fears....[But] improvements of characteristics would raise doubts as to whether the individual was being done away with and whether certain types of people were being defined as undesirable.”

Freundel,“Judaism .” p-135 30. B. Pes. 54a 31. B. Hul. 7b

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32. Rosner ,“Judaism, Genetic Screening and Genetic Therapy,” pp. 411-412.