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The Pros And Cons Of The Designer Baby

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The big question is, should parents be permitted to select certain physical traits for their unborn fetus? The simple answer to this is no, but everyone has their own opinion on this debate. Yes, there are good things that come out of the “designing” your baby but is it really a moral thing to be doing, after all the fetus is a human being. To have your designer baby the doctors who help accomplish this task perform genetic engineering and that is a scary thought. It has its positive sides, such as being able to prevent diseases, but overall genetic engineering to have your designer baby has unknown health risk and unseen consequences, and apart from that it is not following the natural law that God himself made. You can think that the …show more content…

Humans can never fully be able to successfully modify or prevent diseases in a human because "For example, diabetes, heart disease, or certain types of cancer -- are linked to several or even many genes, can't be predicted with any certainty, and depend also on environmental factors such as diets"(Ball). The human body is complicated, every part of the body relies on another, "The human genome is 3.2 billion letters, and in the wrong place a single typo -- a dozen or so misplaced atoms -- can create misery"(Peterson). To be messing around with the nature of anything is risky because one never knows the consequences or the possibility of the negative outcomes. We should not try to change who people are born to be because there are amazing people out there born with disabilities and who would want to change a person who is unique and beautiful in their own special way. A big example is when a Crispr engineer, "Ms. Doudna once revealed she had a son with Down syndrome. 'She said, 'I just want you to know that he's perfect just the way he is'...Even if Crispr could have fixed that genetic defect, the woman said she wouldn't change it" (Peterson). The Crispr machine was created and its purpose was to

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Do you believe that we should change human DNA and genes to make “better” people? I think that the answer really depends on what you are changing or trying to make better about a person. If the person has a genetic deformity, then the answer would be yes. You should try to help that person to be “better”. If we are talking about a person who is normal, that wants to be better at a sport or a talent then the answer would be no.

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The core reason to why designer babies should be allowed is because of the elimination of disease. No parent should see their child suffer from the hardships of the likes of leukemia, autism, or cancer. Dr. Tony Perry, a pioneer in cloning explains that "there

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I do believe parents should be able to pick genetic characteristics of their children, only if it is absolutely necessary and the parents want to have their own child. Some of the pros to this might be that the parents have a high chance of a genetic disease, so a designer baby might be necessary to reduce or remove that genetic disease. I feel that designer babies should only be designed if it is some genetic disease or something that would harm the baby only to eliminate the disease. Designer babies can prevent genetic disorders, which can create a healthier generation of kids in the future. Therefore this can eliminate genetic diseases for everyone and make future reproduction easier by not having to use designer babies again.[1]

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The expensive process can create a gap between designer babies and non-designer babies and rich and poor babies. There are desired traits, so there would be a lack of societal diversity, with everyone having the same traits. The procedure can create a random gene that interrupts another gene or create a new disease. The contagious disease can spread all over the country if the baby survives. Decimating the population might seem like a good idea, but it can go too far too fast.

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Doing the procedure undermines evolution and could even reverse it. The reason humans have been so popular in terms of surviving and reproducing is due to the genetic diversity given to them from two million years of evolution. Now, not everyone will look exactly the same, but most will be pretty, healthy, and smart because almost everyone has the same idea of what a “better” human is (“Designer Babies: The Good and the Bad”). Almost no parent who would go through with the procedure would choose an ugly and dumb child.

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In this Earth, no two human beings are ever alike, no two fingerprints are ever the same, and no two twins are exactly identical. Everyone is special in their own way. Human beings are what they want to be today without their own mother and father choosing what kind of hair they should have, what eye color would be perfect, what kind of nose would be cute, etc. Why change something that should not be changed? A baby is a baby and they should

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As someone who believes in the good that science brings, I feel that risk designer babies bring outweigh the benefits. It will cause a divide in our society where “traditional” children will be consistently compared to genetically modified children, and it may force people to choose to Personally, I would not be comfort with participating in any assisted reproduction processes. The creation of life is sacred and should be respected and performed in the way God

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Scientists are always interested in humanity’s and science’s developing. One of the ways of improving human’s abilities and health is creating designer babies. Unfortunately, our society is not ready yet to accept people, who were genetically modified. However, some teenagers and even people of conscious age think that if their genes were modified, they could be absolutely different than they are now: could be more pretty, more clever, more talented and so on, but they do not think that they could be “grown” for someone, who needs donor organs, donated blood and so forth like it was in Jodi Lynn Picoult’s (an American author) book, which called “My sister’s keeper”. This story shows us how momentous could be the decisions that are connected with creating a baby whose genes will have that information that you want, because first of all parents must think about child’s life.

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Finally, genetic modifying can allow people to live longer. You may think that this is good that people would live longer, but there some negative aspects to this. Life would be very boring of course, but more importantly, overpopulation would happen and humans would be in competition with one another since everything would now be limited. While some aspects of genetic engineering should appealing, they all most likely have a dark secret hiding within

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but what about the child. How do you think that they would feel about it. Knowing that they aren’t who they actually thought they are. Wow that would be hard to life like that. Studies say that, “There is a debate that says that creating designer babies can lead to a gap in

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With society creating a perception of a “perfect human being,” altering humans’ logic to be “perfect,” the idea of designer babies was born. Designer babies are babies which doctors and scientists genetically modify, while the babies are still in their mothers’ wombs. The genetic modifications range from physical changes to the removal of diseases. Following the

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The researchers then combine the broken gene with a healthy gene. This new healthy gene is now modified and free from the mutation it had before. Although many individuals’ ethics and morals stand in the way of gene editing, this technology affects society in many different

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Have you ever wondered what Genetic Engineering for a designer baby is? Well there are so many things to know about it. First of all, you need to know what traits any parent is allowed to choose for their baby. You can choose the gender, appearance such as (hair color, eye color,etc.) also Intelligence, disease, and personality.

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Editing of the human genome in the past has been only a sight seen in dystopia works such as Brave New World. Now, genetic enhancement is a prevalent today and people are beginning to realize the issues that can arise from creating these designer babies. Gene editing can be helpful to eradicate life changing disabilities. Yet, the term disability does not correctly label these differently abled people, as the idea of what is considered disabled has changed overtime. To fully understand the consequences and implications of genetic selection and enhancement of human embryos, society must mature and declare lines of what is and is not ethically moral.

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