Designer Babies

Imagine yourself in your doctor’s office. He hands you a clipboard and you start checking off what you want… green eyes, blond hair, artistic, female. Congratulations, you’ve just created what you think is the perfect child. However, there is one small problem with this plan; someone has already tried to create the perfect human. His name is Adolf Hitler.

Designer Babies, a form of human genetic engineering, should be banned. When a human is created with a different embryo in a lab that child can feel a lost sense of identity; also, genetic engineering can lead to a loss of human diversity and an imbalance between the social classes; and the procedure for testing and creating genetically engineered children destroys embryos that had the potential of becoming a child.

Genetic engineering is a field that is growing rapidly every single day. First there was the cloning of Dolly the sheep, and then came the controversy surrounding it. Now we are looking at our technology and how someday soon, you could have the option to design your own child. To design their facial features, to design their interests, to design their build. Are you prepared to generate your child off of a checklist, or a simple computer program?

Think about your two parents. You were created uniquely from a mixture of their genes, just as your siblings were, and yet you and your siblings are different, inside and out, just like you are different to every other person on this planet. And that’s what makes us unique, the fact that we are all different. Genetic engineering and more specifically, designer babies can tear all that diversity down. Just like Hitler tried to do. We all know the failure of the Nazi party, trying to make the world “pure” of...

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...cket, when there aren’t any benefits.

Testing and procedures surrounding genetic engineering must be stopped. This has become more than just about vanity, this is a moral issue! Thousands and thousands of potential children die during this process. For the sake of humanity, and for the sake of your descendents, stop this procedure before it goes too far down this slippery slope, stop this procedure before we make the same mistakes Hitler did, trying to create the perfect humans. Genetic engineering and designer babies should be out right banned. The procedure causes children to lose themselves, to lose their sense of identity, human diversity will be diminished, and this procedure kills countless numbers of potential children. Nevertheless, children are already unique and wonderful the way they are, and we, have no valid reason to change that system.