Available soon: Designer babies

NEW YORK – Do you want blue eyes for your baby? That’s one of the questions a fertility clinic will be asking when it begins offering custom-designed babies to would-be moms and dads.

Dr. Jeff Steinberg, who operates clinics

in Manhattan and Los Angeles, says that within six months he plans to let customers choose their baby’s eye, hair, and even skin color, according to the New York Daily News.

Steinberg, who helped produce the first test-tube baby, acknowledges the technology is not 100 percent perfect and says best results are couples with Scandinavian heritage, whose gene pools are least diluted.

Critics, though, have blasted the idea of designer babies, likening it to the pursuit of a master race. - AP