A New World in Embryo
Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permitted to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons . . . only no one ever requested it.
When Lizbeth and Harvey Durant decided to invoke the Law; when Dr. Potter did not rearrange the most unusual genetic structure of their future son, barely an embryo growing in the State''s special vat-the consequences of these decisions threatened to be catastrophic.
For never before had anyone dared defy the Rulers'' decrees . . . and if They found out, it was well known that the price of disobedience was the extermination of the human race . . .
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