Design-A-Baby
“Designer Babies” used to be some terms you would hear in futuristic movies, book or comic books, but know its becoming reality. The new technology that these scientists are providing us has both positive and negative effects. However, for future parents who have heredity diseases, preimplantation genetic diagnoses (PGD), is one technology they can use to prevent their child from these diseases.
The positive effect from PGD, one form of genetic technology, is that they use their expensive procedure for parents who want to prevent any passing of heredity diseases such as Huntington’s chorea, Cystic Fibrosis, Dwarfism, Autism and Muscular Dystrophy. This good use of technology can end all suffering and early casualties. Genetic technology can also give infertile couples a change to become parents, while some parents abuse this technology to make their child more attractive, smarter or more physical. Abusing this kind of technology and trying to play God can cause some problems to arise. First, this technology is not 100% accurate. It can cause problems or danger to the child.
Using InVitro Fertilization, scientists take the mother’s eggs and the father’s sperm and put them into test tubes, by doing this, the scientist are able to remove any diseases or disability on the request of the parents. There, the parents are informed the sex and the genes of their child. When everything is ready to go, the embryo goes into the mother’s womb by the scientists, until nine months later, when the baby is born.
“Designer Babies” used to be some terms you would hear in futuristic movies, book or comic books, but know its becoming reality. The new technology that these scientists are providing us has both positive and negative effects. However, for future parents who have heredity diseases, preimplantation genetic diagnoses (PGD), is one technology they can use to prevent their child from these diseases.
The positive effect from PGD, one form of genetic technology, is that they use their expensive procedure for parents who want to prevent any passing of heredity diseases such as Huntington’s chorea, Cystic Fibrosis, Dwarfism, Autism and Muscular Dystrophy. This good use of technology can end all suffering and early casualties. Genetic technology can also give infertile couples a change to become parents, while some parents abuse this technology to make their child more attractive, smarter or more physical. Abusing this kind of technology and trying to play God can cause some problems to arise. First, this technology is not 100% accurate. It can cause problems or danger to the child.
Using InVitro Fertilization, scientists take the mother’s eggs and the father’s sperm and put them into test tubes, by doing this, the scientist are able to remove any diseases or disability on the request of the parents. There, the parents are informed the sex and the genes of their child. When everything is ready to go, the embryo goes into the mother’s womb by the scientists, until nine months later, when the baby is born.
It is unnecessary that some parents are wasting away their money just to ‘design’ their child. It would feel as if they were buying a car, taking time thinking of the price, the color, the rims, the outcome, insurance and more. By going to these science engineers and specifically changing their child to the way their parents want them to be is generally wrong. Imagine how the child will feel, most would probably think that they were never good enough. It is a horrible thing to do to your child if you abuse the technology and money, trying to play God. Using this kind of technology can be dangerous for both the children and the community. Doing experiments on animals is bad enough, but doing it on unborn children is even worse.
PGD should be used for the right reasons, which is preventing early deaths to children with incurable or life threatening diseases. There are some parents who would pay anything prevent their child from suffering. Then, there happens to be some couples who are infertile, which means they cannot conceive on their own. If they use this science, they can have the pleasure of being parents. Designer Babies have positive effects, it brings happiness to those who have suffered both physically and mentally, but if you abuse this power, the result will dangerous.
Works Cited
Designer Babies: Ethical Considerations
http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/agar.html
Ethics of Designer Babies
http://australianforterri.blogspot.com/2007/01/ethics-of-designer-babies.html
What is a Designer Baby?
http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/db_cont1.htm
Rights and Wrongs
http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/db_eth.htm
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