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Designing your child is becoming more and more popular as the discoveries progress. The excitement of what gender it will be will be gone. Recent discoveries are making "designing your child" a possibility. Whether it's a blessing or a curse is yet to be determined because it is in the early stages of this. Designer babies are not going to be used to their full potential therefor unless in dire need, they should not be used.

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However an advancement in technology before the turn of twenty- first century makes designer babies a real possibility, staates, Sarah Ly Keywords. This article shows that designer babies have created controversy about whether it's ethical or unethical and on whether it is necessary to implement limitations regarding designer babies in the future. Like I said before, PGD allows viable embryos to be screened for various genetic traits, such as sex-linked diseases. Furthermore, this article proves that people may use PGD for a different reason. For example, this article explains about a couple who already had conceive two boys, but they wanted a girl.

(Thadani 2). The process of “Designer babies” involves fertilizing the egg by the sperm in a test tube outside the mother’s womb, and altering the genes. This procedure is also called Pre- implantation Genetic Diagnosis, known as (PGD). It is noble to eradicate disorders and diseases. Some people use the process for non- health reasons. When the screening is opened up to non-related health, 72 percent disapprove of the procedure, (“Introduction to Designer Babies: At Issue.”). According to a June 2006 paper published by Kathy L. Hudson of the Genetics and Public Policy Center, many people wanted to enforce a line between acceptable and unacceptable uses for PGD. (Hudson 1). By 2009, the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles were letting parents select their children’s hair and eye color. The procedure brought over 4 billion dollars a year to the clinics. Clinics were focused on the money and no the important things, like the patients. They did not have the best interest in their patients, as much as they did in the money. (“Introduction to Designer Babies: At Issue.”). The public had a very negative view about using PGD for personal traits. (“Introduction to Designer Babies: At Issue.”). The clinic changed their policy after the outbreak of the public. (“Introduction to Designer Babies: At Issue.”). Also the procedure is very risky. The procedure involves some risks to the embryo, and some parents with no personal history of disease or disability. (Briggs 2). If the process is not done correctly and carefully, the embryo may have a chance of being terminated. (The Ethics of “Designer Babies”). The procedure also causes a chance of mutation. (“Preface to ‘Genetic of Enhancement of Human Abilities’”.). The technology

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Science is now able to better improve human health and safety thanks to the advanced modern technology and medicine that are available. Yet with today's technology being implemented into science comes the questions of human morality, or bioethics. One of the bioethics debates is on the coined term “Designer babies”; on if or where society should draw the line on genetically altering our children before they are born. With the technology able to stop hereditary diseases, the scientific development’s are able to change the child’s “eye color, hair color, social intelligence, right down to whether or not your child would have a widow’s peak” before the child is born. From the options on choosing whether or not your child will look or act a certain

The scientists that are starting to create these designer babies are using special ways to do so. They use in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to invent these designer children. During the process of producing the babies, the eggs are fertilized by sperm in a petri dish, which are then transferred into the woman’s uterus. The scientists finally look at multiple embryos to see which one has that “designer” characteristic. If the embryo meets the qualifications it is kept, if it doesn’t it is thrown out. This means that the flawed embryos, who would’ve had long-fulfilled lives, are killed and don’t have a chance.

“One need not be deeply religious or oppose abortion to be troubled by the prospect of a society in which, as bioethicist Alexander Capron puts it, ‘The wanted child becomes the made-to-order child’" (Shannon). With rising concerns of building a baby through eugenics and IVF or In Vitro Fertilization, the government, court systems, activists, and public media is starting to take notice. Being able to pick your babies’ generic make up would be an ethical disaster with a slippery slope into an era where one’s child is created by man with build-a-baby qualities instead of the natural creation of a new life. Creating a designer baby through IVF technology would have severe consequences not only affecting this generation by all the future

Couples in this generation have been choosing to go through with methods to make sure that their child is made the way they want, also known as designer babies. A designer baby is one whose genetic make-up has been selected by genetic engineering to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics. People may use this to avoid passing on gender linked genetic diseases such as blindness, deafness, autism and cancers. Some may also use this as a way of having a baby of the sex opposite to the one they may already have. This can also be called ‘family balancing’ to have children of both genders in a family.

To start, the people that perform the “designer babies” are called Geneticists. A Geneticists is a biologist who studies Genetics. A designer baby is a baby that you use biotechnology on in order to make it exactly how you want it. The very first one was created in 2000. These designer babies are legal and illegal depending on the country. For example, it's legal in Britain, Germany, and the U.S. But however, it's illegal in the U.K., Australia, China, and the most of Europe. Why would you do this? People might ask. This was just a way to make your baby the way you’d like it. Some things you had the opportunity to select was its personality, gender, appearance, and intelligence. Performing this can also cure your kid of any disease it could have in the future. The Geneticists did this by performing a pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis, which allowed the parents to decide the characteristics of their child and cure them of any diseases. Some people thought this was good because it can cure their kid, especially when a particular disease has been passed in their generations. Although, others believed it was bad because it didn’t give their child the ability to be different and express their individuality in the way they

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However, our technology has not quite advanced to the point where we can chose the physical features of our children, yet. But right now we do have the technology to screen embryos that have been fertilized in a Petri dish for the type of blood, bone marrow, and other features that are present. The problem with this procedure is that in the process of getting the child you want you are fertilizing countless numbers of embryos, in other words, creating countless numbers of children, and then discarding them before they even have the chance to grow. For each person that goes through this procedure they have the potential to kill hundreds of children, only to find their one, perfect child.

With new technologies available everyday, it seems almost as if we can customize our children. Reproduction is no longer an outcome of random and inherited genes, but now it’s a process of creating the child that we want to have. Fertility clinics are in debate as to whether or not it is ethical to be able to determine the sex of our children. Some view this as a valid option, while others see it as another step down the road to designer babies. But how far is too far? That is a question that we can only answer for ourselves. While this article remains unbiased, we are able to form our own opinion after seeing the pros and cons of both sides.

However, another issue with PGD is that it itself is quite expensive, it costs approximately $13,000. This means that the wealthy may be the only ones who are able to afford the screening. “If the likelihood of genetic disease in the wealthy decreases and other citizens do not have access to PGD, will genetic disease perhaps be associated only with the economically unprivileged?” This problem, however, is somewhat resolved in New Zealand as the government usually funds the first two cycles. In some countries, such as the United States, Mexico, Italy, and Thailand, it is legal to chose the gender of the embryo through PGD. This is a major ethical implication, and many countries have banned it, including New Zealand and Australia. If this is allowed, it shows the beginning of creating ‘designer babies’, as parents are able to chose the gender. It is thought that if this is allowed, then eventually parents will be able to choose other features, such as eye colour and hair colour. Also, if the gender is able to be chosen, then it could cause a gender imbalance. In some cultures and societies, one gender is

First I learned the possible risks of establishing a society of “Designer babies”. According to Oxford English Dictionary, a designer baby is defined as “a baby whose genetic make-up has been selected in order to eradicate a particular defect or to ensure that a particular gene is present” (1). As discussed in the “perfect pitch” example of moderator John Hockenberry, science will be hypothetically capable of selecting favorable genetic traits to create a baby to the parents’ preferences. Parents not only can avoid genetic abnormalities such as an extra chromosome leading to Down syndrome, but they can also choose specific alleles for genetic enhancement. This can range from selecting the baby’s gender to his or her hair color. However, The Guardian’s “The Case for Genetically Engineered Babies” addresses gene editing as harmful to children and damaging to the gene pool. This is because artificial selected traits may be considered favorable in one generation but not the next (2). In addition, this will all lead to a society that devalues diversity. Diversity is important in all species because it equips individuals to meet environmental changes and demands. Decreasing diversity is said to be unethical since it decreases the survivability of populations (3). Furthermore, a gap in society will be created between normal babies and designer babies. There will be a greater stigma towards those who suffer from genetic mutations such as Huntington disease or Dwarfism hence their physical abnormalities are also accompanied by negative social pressure.