Designer Baby Persuasive Speech

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What if you could design how you would like your newborn to look? What would it look like would you like it to have blue eyes or even better a some tan skin instead of light or even better would you like your child to be smart or even athletic. Or how about a girl with a good shot at having musical abilities. It’s your choice! But do you all the consequences this could bring you and your future designer baby to the future. Yes most of the parents don’t realize what in the world they are doing because they are so concerned on how perfect they want their child to look. You’ve probably read about the concerns over designer babies but, have you read about the importance of the outcomes? Technology is changing the life for some new children. In addition it may lead to inequality. Think of it inequality is around us everyday however we as humans are trying to prevent inequality. Having designer babies will cause inequality because the treatment for this to happen is highly very expensive, because it is expensive not everyone will be able to afford this treatment and that results in inequality. This will take larger effect as the children grow for example, the child who is modified may be favoured over a non-modified child, hence …show more content…

This is because genes tend to effect more than one area of the body. For example, the parent is attempting to design a smart child however may be the particular gene being used also causes anger management problems. First of all a gene used in designing a baby may have an undesired or harmful effect to the baby. but also in the genetic gene pool and could complicate reproduction in the human population genetically modifying babies has benefits, there are more negative and unpredictable effects that can result from it. The process of changing an unborn baby’s DNA is very delicate and if the process is not done correctly, the embryo may be