The Pros And Cons Of Designer Babies

Have you heard of the new technology that allows parents to make their own perfect, desired child? Scientists are developing a technology called designer babies. Designer babies are essentially genetically engineered children that can also have artificially selected traits. This would lead to a powerful impact on society because there will be a clear division between the poor and wealthy due to the expenses of designer babies. There are dangerous risks, and in the long run, it will create more problems in the future. This is because there will be even more discrimination seeing that pure, non-genetically modified humans will become the inferior race (Thadani). Eventually, the genetically engineered race will take over the human race and this sort of technology may get into the wrong hands. The federal government should take action and quickly make laws to limit the use of the designer babies so the use of this technology will not get out of hand.

With the advancement of genetic technology parents may soon be giving the option of modifying their unborn children.If this happens I’m sure the x-linked disorders will all be a thing of the past. No more passing down bad genes to your children. Mitochondrial manipulation technologies is a controversial topic many countries have banned its use. Some people feel that you should let mother nature run it’s course with making babies while others feel genetically modified babies are a thing of the future.

Renowned Physicist Stephen Hawking once said the following regarding genetically engineered babies, “With genetic engineering, we will be able to increase the complexity of our DNA, and improve the human race. But it will be a slow process, because one will have to wait about 18 years to see the effect of changes to the genetic code.” Like Mr. Hawking stated the potential negative effect of having a baby through this process would not only take eighteen years to see a minimal effect of babies procreated this particular way. Although we strive to

The thought of genetically modified humans sounds like an idea out of a novel of science fiction. Yet, genetic engineering is all around us. Designer babies is a controversial topic amongst the scientific community, religious groups, and the general public. One side of the argument is all in favor and wants more prevalent genetic modification of babies. The other side of the argument is against genetic modification of babies and believes it is immoral and unethical.

Human genetic engineering and eugenics have been a largely controversial topic over the past decades. Eugenics can be popularly defined as the science of improving and enhancing a human population or person through manipulating the human genes, selective breeding, and sterilization. The end goal and desired result of eugenics is to basically create a human race or people with more desirable biological, physical, or psychological traits. Eugenics and genetic modification is a current, pressing subject; in April 2015, a group of Chinese researchers, used a new gene-editing technology, called CRISPR to “[tinker] with the genomes of human embryos” (Adams). Presently, according to CQ Researcher, “New genetic technologies allow scientists to delete a mutant gene and insert a healthy one, which…has the potential to eliminate inherited diseases, such as cystic fibrosis.” However, these techniques have only been used on embryos belonging to laboratory animals. The big question here is whether or not science and technology are crossing an ethical boundary by using these techniques and performing genetic modification on human embryos. Do humans have the right to “play God” and alter nature?

If it is possible to cure genetic disorders in unborn children, then why does this dilemma exist? Designer babies may offer a solution for many parents faced with an uncertain future. The term “Designer Babies” refer to children who develop from embryos that are selected, or genetically modified in vitro (outside of the human body, usually in a laboratory). While emerging technology is constantly improving the daily lives of mankind, the scientists involved in this branch of science have fallen under great scrutiny despite their best effort to contribute to society. As a developing science, the exploration of genetic editing has potential to direct humanity to a radiant future. Financially funding and

Day by day, an accretion of advancements and improvements are formed across the world. Prominent developments occur rapidly, like the use and creation of technology. Technology has and continues to create an immense effect on how we live our daily lives. Its use is ranged from how information is found, travel, communication, and more. However, the advancements of technology seems to interfere with the circle of natural life, life that is brought into our world. It has changed the lives of unborn children, whom are in the form of an embryo. Altered by a new technique and process of genetic modification, that is commonly referred to as “Designer Babies”. This genetic modification, genetically modifies the DNA of an embryo to achieve desirable traits amongst them. It changes an unborn babies development and future life. While it may seem that designer babies can be a positive life change, there are negative effects that outweigh, due to the fact that it goes against human nature; genetic probability, expectations, diversity, and religious prospects.

With all the freedom in America, is it fair to design a child? “A baby developing from an embryo created by in-vitro fertilization and selected because it had or lacked particular genes, the genetic makeup often having been notified by genetic engineering” (Dictionary,com), If this were to become popular the world would lack racial diversity and there could be genetic consequences.

Finally, my last reason why I do not support genetic engineering is because it will make some people enter a bad emotional state. In the movie GATTACA,when a person was perfect, but then later found out he had mistakes they would enter a suicidal state of mind. This happens because the person thinks they’re perfect but when they realise they are not they think they’re a failure. If we start genetically modifying our children they could experience something similar to this. We should just let everyone be

For the society of GATTACA to exist, there needs to be lots of technology/information that are necessary. The future of a society like GATTACA is not to far in the future. Some information that will be needed for a society like GATTACA to exist, is being able to identify what genes and traits a human has based on a blood sample, in the matter of a day. The technology of being able to create “Designer Babies”, needs to be available for a society like GATTACA to exist. Scientists and doctors will need to be able to have the ability to extract any imperfect genes from the sperm or the egg to prevent any imperfect traits of an offspring. Last in the movie GATTACA, they had the technology to determine one’s DNA sequence in the matter of minutes using a sample of them. This technology is a must if a GATTACA society ever existed.

What do you think about designer babies? Do you think that parents should choose what they’re baby is going to look, and act like? Whether their baby is going to get straight A’s or your baby is going to be the football or cheerleading captain, most people think that they should be able to choose what their baby is going to look like, but other people think that it’s wrong to to change what their baby is going to look like. People shouldn’t get get to choose what they’re baby is going to look like. A designer baby is a baby who has a genetic makeup that has been selected in order for a particular defect, or for insuring that a certain gene is present.

One reason why designer babies should not be allowed is in the early stages there are many risks like miscarriage and they don’t know how the designer baby will grow up to be. Bioethicist Ronald Green of Dartmouth College says, “serious errors and health problems as unknown genetic side effects in ‘edited’ children and populations begin to manifest themselves.” Scientist around the world do not know enough about this practice for it to become mainstream. Also, when the mother is pregnant with the designer baby there is a chance of miscarriage and the miscarriage would be directly connected to the designer baby. Why would a logical mother do this procedure when they have a chance of losing a lot of money but most importantly they would lose their baby. This explains the problems of this procedure, “Egg harvesting is unpleasant and risky and doesn’t give you that many eggs… the success rate for implanted embryos is still typically about one in three.” (Ball). Looking at these numbers think for a second. Someone that does this procedure has a 33% chance of it working. The odds are not in anyone's favor. It is best for people to stay away.

Will you go for the brown hair or blond? Would you prefer tall or short? Girl or boys? Its sound scary for me. A designer baby is a human embryo that has been genetically modified, usually following guidelines set by the parent or scientist, to produce desirable traits. This is done using various methods, such as gene therapy or preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). This technology is the subject of ethical debate, bringing up the concept of genetically modified "super humans" to replace modern humans.

How does it sound to walk into the doctor’s office, choose what attributes you want your baby to have, and then having that exact baby 9 months later? Although this may seem quite harmless to most, the negative effects of designer babies are tremendous: the lack of diversity in our population, violation of a specific set of laws designed to protect humans, going against Christian views, and even destroying the roots of human nature. With genetic engineering biotechnology, such as Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (or CRISPR), new and unique altercations are being done to revolutionize many aspects of our lives. Along with astounding benefits that can come from these biotechnologies, many people have come up with crazy ideas, such as these designer baby ideas, that could be potentially harmful to our society.

One of the most controversial scientific issues concerning the welfare of the human population is using gene therapy on a developing embryo. Although some individuals deem designer babies as "build-a-bear babies that evoke fears of Gattaca, Brave New World, and the Nazis' quest for a blonde, blue-eyed race of Aryans,” there are more beneficial health aspects that correlate with creating designer babies than these stereotypical negatives (“The Need to Regulate 'Designer Babies”). Due to a larger aging population as a cause of the advancing medical technology, there is a higher probability for degenerative and genetic disorders to appear in an individual’s life as these particular adversities can appear with age. Even though genetic therapy can promote stereotypes and encourage the generalization of the society, it can prevent many common controversial negatives that the aging population is dealing with today. Individuals should utilize the advancing genetic technology to create designer babies as this can reduce the prevalence of genetic disorders, increase life span, decrease the expenditure on accumulating treatments, and promote liberality on scientific issues.