there is a notion that barbara rothman developed, the �*tentative pregnancy�*.pregnant but she does not feel pregnant, she certainly does not tell everybody until she has had the test to show that she is not affected by some mutation which may lead to a serious illness. getting back to the point about perfectibility and that sort of seductive idea, there is a geneticist working in the united states, razib khan, who has spoken about the "second age of eugenics" being upon us. he, by the way, he sequenced his own son's entire genome in utero and he went on to predict that people are going to be better looking, healthier and smarter. "what is not to like?" he concluded. as an ethicist, what would your response be? he is exaggerating, to start with. we do not really know what makes you clever or more beautiful or a better person. that is the first thing. the second thing, you only have to look at the people in the last century who tried to make a better human. hitler, stalin. these are not good people and their attempts were misguided. they were notjust misguided be