Human Eugenics

When I want to phone my friend, I do not dial a random number and hope my friend answers. I look up the number in a book, then dial the corresponding number. A similar process may be possible for women who hope to be mothers.

The advance of technology means that rapid genotyping will soon be reasonable. A woman cannot do much about her own genome - but just as when you have lemons you can make lemonade, it is possible that knowlege of the mother's genome might allow a rational match to be found among men such that a healthy, vital child is produced. The match could be designed to correct flaws in the mothers genome - or possibly it might be found that her DNA can correct flaws in an otherwise excellent donor. I am not suggesting that this rational match be married to the hopeful mother - the fact that his genome is a good match does not mean he would be a suitable companion. Rather, there would be a database of genetic profiles and frozen sperm, which the woman could acquire. And thaw.

Folks may argue this is baked in the form of sperm banks which have the sperm of nobel laureates, CEOs etc, or photo books showing how buff each donor is. The difference here is that the actual genotype of the father is used, rather than the extended phenotype, and it is matched using information from the mother's genotype.