It’s a fertility clinic, not McDonald’s! McDonald’s owns the slogan, “what you want is what you get”. This same slogan should not, I repeat, should not be used at a fertility clinic. I just don’t get it. Reports surfaced yesterday of fertility clinics over seas and in the US that will soon offer custom-made babies. Custom-made babies. Ugh!

We have long passed the advanced reproductive technologies that allow parents to choose the gender of their baby and have moved on to bigger (but not better, as far as I am concerned) things. This technology allows couples to choose certain physical traits of their babies. Imagine if you could choose your babies traits, like hair color, hair texture, eye color, etc. the way you choose options when you buy a car. Power windows would translate to powerful athletic abilities. Metallic blue exterior with tinted windows would translate to blue eyes and nicely tanned skin color. I don’t know what upsets me more: a) The fact that some people could be so vein and actually want to choose their child’s eye color, or b) that this is even an issue when you have so many couples out there that long for a baby, any baby, yet can’t reproduce. Am I the only one that thinks this is both frightening and absurd?! (Read more about the controversy here)

The way I see it: You get what you get…and you love what you get. And actually, you end up loving what you get even more than you thought you could ever love what you got. Da da da da daaaa…

-Victoria