McCloskey: Will it be the Wild West for designer babies?

Abby McCloskey, Dallas Morning News, October 12, 2025

“Reproductive technologies for animals are moving fast in our state. A physician friend recently directed me to a website of a Dallas company touting the ability to bring animals back from extinction, Jurassic Park style. A rural Texas clinic was featured in a recent article in The Atlantic for its ability to clone racehorses, cattle for the best meat and beloved family pets.

Reproductive technologies are advancing for our own species, too. In vitro fertilization miraculously allows for insemination in a petri dish. Doctors can scan embryos for some diseases and sex. But this technology is not the pinnacle, but the base of an enormous mountain, the top of which reaches godlike, dare I say Babel-like, heights.”