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Persuasive Essay On Engineering Babies

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Engineering babies have been a controversial topic because some people believe that when you are having a child, you are simply choosing to pass down your traits or DNA to your kid. Nothing too complex about that. But since technology is rapidly increasing, people are becoming obsessed with the idea of, theoretically, “making” their child's traits how they would like it to be. People are in favor of this because they might have a trait they don’t want being passed down to their child and this is now a way to deal with that. However, some are against this idea because they think that it will technically make the baby cosmetic, fake or not even fully theirs. They would like it to be as natural as birth and DNA makeup should be. The main question …show more content…

They are babies engineered in vitro for special traits which can vary from a lowered risk of disease to selecting the gender of your child. As for the laws go, if it is offered to you as a soon-to-be mother, in Minnesota you can legally do it. There aren’t many regulations as far as that goes. It is mainly what you believe to be true. Right now it is an option. There is talk about it becoming illegal later on as it is a topic people get so worked up about. You are changing a person's DNA. Sometimes for your own benefit, sometimes to help diseases not to spread through your child’s life. Designer babies have multiple positive and negative effects depending on your …show more content…

(Murray), “On a larger scale it’s possible that giving parents the ability to select the genetic traits of their offspring could subtly worsen the relationship between parents and children.” He says that with this new idea brought to many parents, they will just take advantage of the fact that they could have their baby be just how they want it to be. Which could lead them to be upset if they aren’t their perfect child they tried to make. As opposed to only using this as preventing your child from gaining a disease that the parent might

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