How would you feel if your parents constructed you, would you feel dehumanized, or how about deprived of your individuality? Advances in medicine, like designer babies, are not beneficial because designer babies can only be used by the rich, babies lose their individuality, and genes are not perfect. The only reason the rich can use this is because it cost $100,000. If you decide to create your own baby you could change anything from their hair color to what diseases they get. Genes are not perfect because not all diseases can be cured by this process and people think this process can cure any diseases they do not want their child to have.
Advances in medicine, like designer babies, are not beneficial because they can only be used by the rich. What I mean by this is that preimplantation genetic diagnosis or PGD cost $3,000-$5,000 on top of the $10,000-$15,000 it cost for in-vitro fertilization. If you get a donor egg that is another $6,500 on top of the $25,000 or so for everything else. To put this
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Many genetic diseases like HIV, some blindness cannot be cured by genetic diseases. Genes make us who we are they create our personalities and traits we are born with. It also might be hard because they could choose which ones to have and which ones not to have but that might not always work out because genes are not perfect.
In conclusion, you would not want an artificial child to walk around and feel lost, especially your child. Designer babies are a bad advance to medicine because they cost a lot of money so not everyone can afford them. They also do not get to be themselves they are someone or multiple people all at once. Not all genes are perfect so therefore you cannot cure every disease you do not want it to have. Our world would be a better place if we stopped creating our babies we do not want the next generation of humans all to be