Practicing Summary and Paraphrase

In the post below, I will be practicing paraphrasing a quote from the article "Genetically Engineered Babies."

ONordsiek. "VW Bus." April 10, 2008 via Wikipedia. Public Domain Dedication. 

Quote

"Society should instead focus on the enormous importance of environmental influences in health, Winston said. "What we should be trying to do, rather than risk making abnormal babies, is to improve the environment so the DNA functions in the best possible ways.""

My Paraphrase of Original Source

Fertility expert Robert Winston believes "society" should be worried the impact of "environmental influences" on our health. He states we should be trying to change the environment to "improve" our health, rather than change an embryo's genomic sequence.


My Summary of the Original Source 

Instead of altering sequences, fertility expert Robert Winston believes we should try to improve our surroundings to prevent abnormal DNA functions.