Designer Babies Yes, Superbabies No

If King Solomon had a science advisory group, it might have floated the idea of a baby-splitting policy, helping him anticipate which action he might take should he ever have to decide which of two women was a baby’s true mother. As things turned out, Solomon delivered a famously wise ruling. But today we’re less inclined to rely on seat-of-the-finery policy deliberations. Instead, we ask bodies such as the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) and the National Academy of Medicine (NAM)