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Designer Babies vs Human Rights: Who Really Controls Your Body?

Tecnologie riproduttive e tutela della persona

Gianni Baldini, Monica Soldano

Science can now engineer human life from scratch. But who decides where individual freedom ends and playing God begins? About the Work: Based on the groundbreaking volume Tecnologie riproduttive e tutela della persona, edited by legal and bioethics experts Gianni Baldini and Monica Soldano, this breakdown explores how modern reproductive biotechnology clashes with basic legal rights across Europe. Key takeaways: Slide 1: The Tech Shock Science offered parents total control over reproduction. Outdated laws panicked and clamped down instead. Slide 2: The Border Escape Strict bans never stopped assisted reproduction. They just forced families into legal exile abroad. Slide 3: The Genetic Filter Is screening embryos for disease a fundamental healthcare right, or a dangerous slide into new eugenics? Slide 4: The Final Boundary From reproductive autonomy to bodily integrity, the line protecting personhood is being redrawn forever. See how modern biology is breaking old legal systems and what it means for the future of human dignity.