“It’s alive! It’s alive!” genetic engineers will scream when they masterfully craft the first ‘designer baby’ for parents who choose the child’s future through in vitro genetic engineering. At first, the parents will be astounded by the crafting of life only to discover the true monstrosity created through the disruption of nature and the pursuit of knowledge. As Mary Shelley warns in Frankenstein, the duality of knowledge can cause monstrosities that poison the humane future, but aren’t we the monsters who affect the fated lives of innocent bystanders? Some people may say that through the creation of designer babies, we could get rid of predisposed diseases within the human race. However, the negatives outweigh the positives, as the changing …show more content…
Although it may some day be possible, the likelihood for error is immense as we alter the material of the human personality and physical attributions. Furthermore, to truly understand the reparation from getting rid of different parts of genes, we must understand the entirety of the gene. Even if researchers were able to accomplish this, genus have the possibility of being reliant on their position in the chromosome, the sequence in which they were placed, and so many minute details that there will always be error of forever altering a soul. However, despite this fact, supporters of designer babies state that it is the parents choice to decide the fate of their child: “bioethicists have argued that parents have a right to prenatal autonomy, which grants them the right to decide the fate of their children... [they] already possess a high degree of control over the outcome of their children’s lives in the form of environmental choices. (embryo)” They argue that parents can choose their child’s fate, but it is not their life. They will only be affecting the life of an innocent bystander who cannot give consent to the