The Quest for[ designer Children 161
40. Charles Murray ,“Human Nature Deeper into the Brain, ” National Review, January 24, 2000, 51:22, 46-49, p. 49
41. For a journalistic account of gene alteration to achieve excellence in sports, see Jere Longman,“Someday Soon, Athletic Edge May Be from Altered Genes,” New York Times , May 11, 2001. Al
42. Stock, Redesigning Humans, p. 123 43. Ibid, p. 193
44. See, e.g, Frankel and Chapman, Human Inheritable Genetic Modifications, pp. 36-39, Chapman,“Religious Perspectives,” pp. 69-72; Maxwell Mehlman and Jeffrey R. Botkin, Access to the Genome: The Challenge to Equality, Washington, DC , 1998
45. Silver, Remaking Eden, pp. 281-286. See also Lee M. Silver,“Reprogenetics: How It Will Change Our World,” Humanistic Judaism , Autumn 1998, 26:4, 20-26,
pp. 21-23
47. Freundel,“Judaism, ” p. 129
48. The need to make the technology cheap and available for nearly everyone one may propel the use of artificial chromosomes, a package of“off-the shelf gene modules, rather than alter specific genes, thereby in all likelihood allowing inexpensive, mass
genetic enhancement. Stock, Redesigning Humans, p. 186.
49. Francis Fukuyama , Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnological Revolution(New York , 2002), p. 158.
50. See, e.g, Frankel and Chapman, Human Inheritable Genetic Modifications, p.
38; Chapman, Religious Perspectives, p. 71.
S51. Dorff, Matters of Life and Death, p. 317.
52.M. Ned. 94