Although many people believe that babies should be born naturally, they should be born genetically modified because the modifications benefit the baby by preventing it from suffering of diseases, disabilities or birth defects.
For years babies have been born naturally with no drugs or modifications and have lived a healthy happy life, however many of those babies have suffered horrible birth defects or various diseases. Today scientists have discovered a way to prevent babies and their families from suffering these birth defects and diseases. This process is called “genetically modifying”. To many people, this discovery is something they have been wanting and waiting for, but to others this recent discovery is something unwanted and avoided.
Recent studies done by scientist have shown that by genetically modifying unborn babies, many birth defects and diseases are avoided. This process is very beneficial to many people, and no negative effects have been a result of this process. I believe that this process should be carried out and more frequently used around the world. Of course a few more tests should be done to ensure that this is what it seems but other than that, I believe that this process does nothing other than benefit babies and their families.
I can see how many people can be against it, whether its just against religious views or that people are just against the whole process as a whole. If you don’t believe in something then there is no point of doing it or promoting it. Although there hasn’t been any negative feedback or reports of this process, there is always a possibility of something going wrong and once that happens there is no going back.
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...r child and for scientists to hold more experiments and tests which I’m sure many people many people have requested and are still requesting.
In conclusion to my research I have come across many positive outcomes with this process. I firmly believe that a lot more people should go through with it because not only will it positively affect a baby and its family but it will also create a better future for many. The process also helps infertile women to carry a child and give birth, which also gives the woman an life experience that she has wanted. I have discovered nothing but positivity and benefits coming from this. If we continue to promote, advocate and support this discovery who knows what scientists can come up with and discover in future years?
Works Cited
• http://www.nytimes.com
• http://thechangewithin.net
• http://abcnews.go.com
Once altered, the baby will have no say in how its cells are used, or traits they wish to keep but no longer will have the chance too. Some designer babies are created to help others through transplants. Even though the intention may be decent, it is still taking away the child's chance to have a choice in his body. Certain transplants are painful, such as a bone marrow transplant, and creating the child to be used as a donor could possibly put him through involuntary pain.
Neoeugenics is the idea of new, “neo”, eugenics or a new way of creating a healthier race. Eugenics was first defined in the late 1800s by a man named Sir Francis Galton who said that it was basically the study of traits that will cause an advantage or disadvantage in the traits of future generations. Eugenics soon turned from being about the use of artificial selection of breeding to create a stronger species, to being about the advancement of certain races over others. When talking about neo eugenics, it is believed that it may turn into something similar to that of eugenics in that the use of artificial selection would now be used to bring the upper class higher in standards of health and wellbeing as well as beauty. Others believe that the use of neo eugenics will help create a healthier, more stable species. Whether bad or good, the way that eugenics will advance will be in designer babies.
In recent years, great advancement has been made in medicine and technology. Advanced technologies in reproduction have allowed doctors and parents the ability to screen for genetic disorders (Suter, 2007). Through preimplantation genetic diagnosis, prospective parents undergoing in vitro fertilization (IVF) can now have their embryo tested for genetic defects and reduce the chance of the child being born with a genetic disorder (Suter, 2007). This type of technology can open the door and possibility to enhance desirable traits and characteristics in their child. Parents can possibly choose the sex, hair color and eyes or stature. This possibility of selecting desirable traits opens a new world of possible designer babies (Mahoney,
What do one think of when they hear the words “Designer Babies”? A couple designing their own baby of course, and it’s become just that. Technology has made it possible for there to be a way for doctors to modify a babies characteristics and its health. Genetically altering human embryos is morally wrong, and can cause a disservice to the parents and the child its effecting.
Present technological capabilities point to PGD as the likely method for selecting traits. Even though technology has advanced and “designer babies” are being created more often today it is still in an experimental stage. This has caused many ethical issues and questions. Like anything genetic engineering and “designer babies” has its pros and cons. The process of creating a “designer baby” is often questioned because of its shaky moral platform. Though there are certainly some positive things that can be obtained from the use of genetic engineering used on unborn babies, but it is often wondered if parents will have the “right” reasons to genetically modify their baby, or if reasoning will become more superficial. Here are some of the cons associated with the genetic engineering of babies. If the process is not done carefully, the embryo could be accidentally terminated. Parents may use this technology for superficial purposes; such as purposely seeking out a blonde haired, blue eyed baby for appearance concerns
Picture a young couple in a waiting room looking through a catalogue together. This catalogue is a little different from what you might expect. In this catalogue, specific traits for babies are being sold to couples to help them create the "perfect baby." This may seem like a bizarre scenario, but it may not be too far off in the future. Designing babies using genetic enhancement is an issue that is gaining more and more attention in the news. This controversial issue, once thought to be only possible in the realm of science-fiction, is causing people to discuss the moral issues surrounding genetic enhancement and germ line engineering. Though genetic research can prove beneficial to learning how to prevent hereditary diseases, the genetic enhancement of human embryos is unethical when used to create "designer babies" with enhanced appearance, athletic ability, and intelligence.
Having the choice to choose which genes are inherited allows for children to be born healthy and able to avoid mitochondrial disorders and potentially blindness and deafness. Designer babies are a controversial topic because of cost efficiency and some religious views. However, designer babies are a good idea in a world controlled by disease. Designer babies allow for perfect organ donation matches. Take into consideration a small child who is in need of a kidney.
On the website www.debate.org/opinions/should-there-be-designer-babies they discuss a range of opinions that both justify as well as diminish the idea of designer babies. One quote in particular "We could have healthy babies from any diseases... it would be...
In today’s society we have been coming control freak trying to prevent bad things to happen to our children, but in reality misfortunes still occur even if we try to avoid them and people that agree that designer babies are the new generation are unethical and morally wrong. To produce designer babies you are disregarding a natural process that has worked for millions of
People should not have access to genetically altering their children because of people’s views on God and their faith, the ethics involving humans, and the possible dangers in tampering with human genes. Although it is many parent’s dream to have the perfect child, or to create a child just the way they want, parents need to realize the reality in genetic engineering. Sometimes a dream should stay a figment of one’s imagination, so reality can go in without the chance of harming an innocent child’s life.
Imagine going into a building with your partner and opening a catalog full of potential traits you can choose for your future child. You scour through the catalog carefully choosing the quality you think will benefit your child, and once you are done, you go up to a counter where they can convert your wishes into reality. Does this futuristic scene seem a little scary to you? Well, the human race might be closer to this future than you may think. Designer babies is a term used by journalists to describe the process by which we may be able to use genetic technology to modify embryos and give our children desirable traits. Creating designer babies uses a technique known as inheritable genetic modification which modifies genes in eggs, sperm or early embryos and results in the altered genes being passed on to future generations (Steere). I am against the concept of creating designer babies genetically modified to have desirable traits.
Human genetic engineering can provide humanity with the capability to construct “designer babies” as well as cure multiple hereditary diseases. This can be accomplished by changing a human’s genotype to produce a desired phenotype. The outcome could cure both birth defects and hereditary diseases such as cancer and AIDS. Human genetic engineering can also allow mankind to permanently remove a mutated gene through embryo screening, as well as allow parents to choose the desired traits for their children. Negative outcomes of this technology may include the transmission of harmful diseases and the production of genetic mutations.
Many debilitating and severe unwanted diseases, genetic disorders and disabilities can be avoided through the creation of designer babies. A child's quality of life would be drastically increased if they evade Down Syndrome, deformities or heart disease for example. In a sense, it isn’t all that different to hearing aid, medication for an illness or chemotherapy for cancer, but on a larger scale and earlier in someone’s life, before it even really begins in fact. Some people would argue that changing genes is changing who people are, which they view as ‘wrong’, but genes aren’t exactly the only things that make up a person anyway. The way that they grow up and their surroundings also make people...
Dozens of couples in the United Kingdom are opting to have this done so they can give birth to free from disease
Instead of spending time and money on figuring out ways to change genes scientist should put the same effort in to figuring out cures for people with illnesses. But also comes down to the fact that one to the other thing without suffering there is no such compassion. Honestly, that might sound cruel and harmful but that’s the cold heart truth. In addition, human gene modification is so wrong to the point that. If a person does not want the genes it came with naturally. They start nit picking and choosing what is more appealing to that person. Then aborting babies will start being a thing. People will not get what they want from the babies.