I. INTRODUCTION

Remarkably rapid advances in genetics and related technology promise to profoundly impact the future of human health and welfare, (1) through applications ranging from the exceptionally practical and obviously beneficial to the exceedingly extravagant and ostensibly superfluous--e.g., from cancer medication safely and efficiently produced in chicken eggs (2) to grow-your-own breast implants. (3) Even those advances with probable potential for future benefit may in the meantime stir controversy regarding public expenditure on their development or regulation of their eventual use. (4) Future applications of genetics in human reproductive technology will ...