Playing God with Alex Story
Title: Playing God
Subtitle: Fatherhood, Down Syndrome and the New Eugenics
Guest: Alex Story
Modern medicine has given us extraordinary power.
We can detect genetic conditions before birth, edit DNA with increasing precision and make decisions that previous generations could scarcely imagine. Yet every technological advance brings a new moral question.
Just because we can, does it mean we should?
In this thought-provoking conversation, Olympic rower, businessman and writer Alex Story reflects on the birth of his son with Down syndrome and how fatherhood transformed not only his marriage and…
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