Designer babies are the new black. "Isn't she beautiful? And she goes with everything!"

UK experts revealed an improved method which could allow hundreds of couples to avoid the risk of having children with a killer disease. It will be quicker and more accurate than existing screening.

More disturbingly, a London hospital applied to use IVF sex selection techniques to help couples with a family history of autism - by destroying all their male embryos.

There is no reliable genetic test for autism, but boys are more likely than girls to have the condition. Implanting only females would dramatically reduce the risk, but mean many perfectly healthy male embryos would be discarded.

Ethical campaigners said the move was yet another example of how the goalposts were being moved ever wider.

This is one of those debates that gives me a raging headache. For me there is no clear line between ethical and un-ethical. I hate that!

Who amongst us would not choose to ensure our child was born with no danger of them ever being stricken with cancer? Or heart problems? Or autism? Or any number of potentially debilitating health concerns?

I would jump at the chance to make sure my child was guaranteed a long and healthy life.

But what if you could choose her IQ? Control her weight? Make sure your boy was athletic? Make sure your daughter was pretty? Choose that your child was a heterosexual? Would you want to make those choices? It would be tempting wouldn't it?

Those choices are not available yet, but I have every confidence that some of them will be someday.

How much would you want to control your child's future?

Now, how is your headache?