  These new genomic technologies could provide prospective parents –and others – with a significant degree of control over the characteristics of their children and the traits that should and should not be promoted. Deciding how to deal with them – as a society, and potentially as individual prospective parents – is a monumental task that calls for clarity about the benefits and drawbacks of genomic testing and editing, and requires us to revisit the meaning of eugenics and the problems associated with it.