The Pros And Cons Of Human Genetic Engineering

In discussion of human genetic modification (HGM) or human genetic engineering, one controversial issue has been the point of view of this method. On one hand, scientists and medical professionals argue that HGM is the door to the future where everything will be possible; it will be a big step for science and a leap forward that will help eliminate many diseases such as cancer, diabetes and HIV. On the other hand, some people argue that HGM will have economic problems. Moreover, others maintain that genetic modification is intended only to create the perfect human. My personal view is that I disagree with human genetic modification because this method could have some risk factors.

Due to the fact that human genetic modification (HGM) is

They say that they do not see anything wrong with experimenting with genes. However, we have to know that HGM will be an expensive process, so what about those people who don’t have the enough money? Lee Silver a molecular biologist of the University of Princeton mentions in his book Remaking Eden: How Genetic Engineering and Cloning Will Transform the American Family that “this process will be very expensive and only those people of the high class will have access to such treatments”(Silver 4). He went on to add that "the use of biotechnology such as human genetic modification will be inevitable and we like it or not, only the global market will decide it who are going be able to use such treatment" (Silver 7). Unfortunately, Lee Silver is right; we are in a world with a lot of economic diversity. I agree with Silver because everything in this world is a conduct of money and only people who have enough money will have the chance to create better and healthier generations in their family. And I don’t even want to imagine what is going to happen to the future at third world countries such as Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, and not to mention forgetting the African countries such as Angola, Zambia or Mozambique; I guess we will just have to wait and

In a world with rapid advances in scientific knowledge of the human genome and the increasing ability to modify and change genes, this scenario of "designing" the perfect baby could well be possible in the near future. In this method doctors and scientists will be modifying genes in eggs, sperm or early embryos and results in the altered genes being passed on to future generation. But, we have to know the risk of such method. The article Genetic Engineering Risks and Impacts explains “we do know of ways in which genetically engineered crops could cause health problems. For instance, genes from an allergenic plant could transfer this unwanted trait to the target plant. This phenomenon was documented in 1996, as soybeans with a Brazil nut gene—added to improve their value as animal feed—produced an allergic response in test subjects with Brazil nut allergies”( http://www.ucsusa.org). The point in this article is that the design of babies has not been approved, the risk of make an error at the time to add or modify the genes of the embryo is possible and instead of improve the genes of the baby this method could destroy the genes in the baby. I agree with this article because this world is not ready to create babies first of all science has to be completely sure not to make error in plant and animals then they might begin to consider treatments in