The Ethics Of Genetic Engineering To The Human Body

 Genetic engineering can prevent children from being born with deadly diseases before they are born.

Although, most days I do not care what I put in my body, but today I find it that if I eat something and I die the people who made that product should have taken better safety measures. I think before they are released into public there should be tested for over a year with over 95% rate that it will not cause an illness, or any other measure needed. Scientists should take big precautions to make sure the public is safe. I also do not think genetic engineering should be used on humans. I only worry about this because in movies we see people changing other people's DNA and making an army out of them and taking over the world. But also that is science fiction and this is real life. However, I believe that if we can think it, it can happen. Look at cloning multicellular organisms, many talented scientists thought it was impossible, and that turned out to be wrong. I also believe humans are not meant to be perfect.

Imagine if we could make disease a thing of the past and extend the average human lifespan past 100 years. With genetic engineering, someday this future could become reality. Genetic engineering can cure genetic diseases, and extend and empower human life. However, many people have overestimated and reacted to ethical and safety concerns associated with this new technology.

How far would you go to save human lives and to progress society for those in need? The benefits of genetic engineering have shown to outweigh the ethical and environmental consequences associated within the field. Genetic Engineering has shown to provide major benefits in the field of medicine and agriculture but is faced with extreme criticism and backlash, specifically on the basis of ethics.

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However, by using the same techniques to modify embryos in order to make the changes permanent, irreversible changes to future generations and to our common genetic heritage (the human germline) can cause many problems. There are known risks involved with producing this organism. The “bad” genes from the sperm and egg cells have the potential to wipe out diseases caused by the single mutations in

There are many incurable diseases in the world that affect an organism’s way of living. Cystic Fibrosis, a disease with no known cure, affects 1 out of 3600 Canadian child’s digestive system and lungs, while a person with sickle cell anemia is only expected to live forty to sixty years. Both of these diseases are similar in the way that they are inherited genetically; they are passed on from parents to their children. Scientists are producing a way to help these people called Genetic Engineering. This is a way of modifying an organism’s genome to produce a more desirable trait by manually adding new DNA.

open up the door to more human genetic engineering that could further the agenda of

It has been the center of controversies and has come under fire from scientific communities, political leaders, religious leaders, and public interest groups. Ethical and moral issues have been the leading causes of this controversial topic from the scientific community, political leaders, and religious leaders. However, fear, misinformation, or lack of knowledge about gene manipulation or genetic engineering seems to be the leading concerns of public interest

Genetic engineering is the figurehead of the ethical concerns of scientists in the 21st century. Nothing is more engrossed with criticism and dislike than the idea of altering the baseline for living organisms. Many people are skeptical of genetic engineering due to the versatility it exhibits. A scientist could use a genetic editing tool, such as CRISPR, to remove the genes for a hereditary disease in an embryo, but they could also utilize it to alter the physical characteristics of a human baby. This thought provoked the flood gates of ethics to unleash a multitude of unanswered questions and concerns about the usage and further development of genetic engineering. The field of genetic engineering is

Gene therapy and by extension designer babies may be one of the most unethical, immoral human breaches within the scientific and medical field ever thought of by man. Altering and modifying the body into having artificial, synthetic traits like expansive height, bright blue eyes, blonde hair follicles may end harming the body moreso than contaminating it into the ultimate Übermensch. “Genomics may also one day enable otherwise healthy individuals to change their own DNA to improve athletic prowess or brain power, or allow the wealthy to artificially conceive genetically “superior” progeny.” (Tucker, par 3). That statement alone confirms the mortal yearning to possess superiority over the populace.

Ethics are going to interfere in sciences due to future developments in genetic engineering. As the research in the field of transgenics continues with plants and bacteria, the same isn’t true with animals. Recently, the discovery of genomics has opened a door where the common sense and the ethics have blocked: The possibility of creating modified humans. A professor of practical ethics at the University of Oxford, Savulescu (2014) states that humans “have a moral obligation” to improve themselves, and since genetic engineering are serving for this purpose, the humanity shall not avoid this. However, the ethics behind this seems more complicated than it is, because, besides the fact that for now this is scientific fiction, the science is getting closer to a reality, and it breaks the common sense of creating a new life. Consequently, changes ought to be done to those genetic modifications happen.

For instance, “The position of human beings is also associated with numerous social and religious perspectives that govern the existence of these individuals. Therefore, the use of genetic engineering alters that natural orientation of human beings and it is perceived to be unethical because there is no one who has the moral authority to alter the natural existence of human beings” (“Genetic Engineering In Human Beings” n.pag.). Everyone is made to do something better than anyone else. Genetic engineering is more about improving natural appearances, and it should only be about helping those who have incurable diseases. Furthermore, as genetic science advances, enhancing personalities and being able to select baby’s physical features will be easier for parents go and get what they designed to be their definition of perfect (“Designer Babies” n. pag.). Those who want to have children should not be able to go in and chose what their children will look like because that fails to respect the creation of human beings. In fact, humans are perceived to be perfect, but being imperfect is what makes beings human, and they do not need modification to their genes (McKibben n.pag.). No one would be unique because by creating perfect humans everyone would be virtually identical. Even so, genetic engineering is playing God (“Effects of Genetic Engineering” n. pag.). There are different definitions of the word perfect. God has created everyone to be their own person. After scientists modify genes to stop cancer and other diseases soon, there will be unnatural species in the world. Therefore, engineering genes should be stopped because it is morally

Although genetic engineering has been going on and used for the past thirty years, it has just recently begun to cause

Genetic engineering has to do with manipulating organisms and DNA to create body characteristics. The practice of genetic DNA has shown an increasing amount over the past years. The process of genetic enhancement involves manipulating organisms by using biotechnologies. The technique is by removing a DNA from one life form and transferring it to another set of traits or organism. Certain barriers are conquered, and the procedure involves changing a form of cells, resulting from an improvement or developed organism. GMO which is a (Genetic Modified Organisms) is the operation done in a laboratory where DNA genetic from one particular species or animals is directly forced into another gene from an unrelated subject of plants or even animals.