Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis"Please make sure our little one has blond hair and blue eyes" and "I want him to be a good athlete and very intellectual.""Oh, and doctor, set him free." from illness, please." "That's all?" “You two aren't very picky, are you?” This will be an easy case.""We will continue with the implant in two days."With the enormous advancement of technology in many areas of genetic diagnosis, parents and doctors seem to defy Mother Nature and perhaps even God every day. An example of this phenomenon is preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Will the advantages of this technology outweigh the disadvantages? Will genetic diagnosis (PID) begin? PGD) involves the removal and testing of a single cell from the embryo (zone or blastocyst... a set of 7-10 cells)3, after in vitro fertilization (IVF), for the possibility of transmission of genetic diseases from parent to child. This procedure is called micromanipulation. The genetic material is discarded and the others are returned. . .3 Specifically, the woman is induced by drugs to ovulate in high quantities and the oocytes are collected. Standard in vitro fertilization then takes place. Three days later, each embryo contains about eight cells and is ready to be biopsied. A micromanipulator holds the area in place along with a pipette. Then another pipette pierces the shell using… half the paper… which is why we feel the need to genetically alter even what God made and intended. These questions seem to pose more significant questions that need answers more than the need for IVF and PID procedures and their progress. References1. http://www.medicalcenter.gwu.edu2. http://www.aaas.org/spp/dspp/sfrl/progects/stem/reprot.pdf3. http://www.religious tolerance.orglabo_pgd.htm4. http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Dir/Ethics/pre.htmlNational Human Genome Research Institute. Literature on the General Ethics Consortium5. http://www.hygeia.org/poems5.htmYale Iniversity School of Medicine Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology MD PhD.6. http://www.biol:tsukuba.ac.jp/~macer/EJ71D.htmlGermany use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis: Research Center for Biotechnology and Law University of Lueneburg, Germany