Public Law 10927 was clear and direct. Parents were permited to watch the genetic alterations of their gametes by skilled surgeons...only no one ever requested it.
When Lizbeth and Harry Durant decided to invole the Law; when Dr. Potter did not rearrage the most unusual genetic structer of their future son, barly 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 disobdience was the extermination of the human race....