"The fact that noted scientists and intellectuals are advocating genetic manipulation to enhance human traits is irresponsible in the extreme." Warns Dr Stuart Newman, professor of cell biology and anatomy at the New York Medical college and chair of the Human Genetic Committee of Cambridge, Massachusetts based Council for Responsible Genetics. I agree with his point that manipulating human genes has much negative effects and is also unethical to be carried out, hence these acts should not be encouraged as a practice.
In Leukemia case, it is highly unethical because not only is it against the Children's right, it also harms both the mental and physical development of the donor child when he or she is treated merely as a cell bank. According
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Evolution is all about passing the gene on to the next generation, adapting and surviving through generations by generations. Evolution does not favor the longest lived, or the strongest, the fastest or even the smartest. Evolution favor those who are best adapted to their environments. At the bottom of the deep ocean, bacterial develop thermophilic traits which allow them to survive the immense heat from the steams that would otherwise kill other organisms. Nevertheless, the bacterial managed to adapt so as to make it a hospitable environment for them to live in. But for us, we made the environment adapt to fit us more than we to them. Furthermore, we are trying to speed up our 'evolution' by manipulating our genes. This self-directed evolution have compressed adaptions that would require 100000 years to take place in to a short 100 years, or even lesser. By doing this, we are signaling to our genes that we no longer need nature evolution to adapt to our environment, and this might cause us to lose adaption skill in the long run. Losing the nature way of us adapting to our environment would only make us more fragile to changes around us. We should not be dependent on technology for survival, and hence designer babies should not be