A bill in Britain would loosen restrictions on the creation of “savior siblings” to allow parents of sick children to use in-vitro fertilization to create designer babies. These children would be used to treat the medical conditions of siblings by supplying bone marrow or umbilical-cord blood shortly after birth.

“The creation and selection of young human life as a ‘savior sibling’ is a dangerous and slippery slope toward a utilitarian ethic that evaluates a person’s worth solely based on how they can be of use to others,” said Dawn Vargo, associate bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action. http://www.citizenlink.org/content/A000005917.cfm