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    world could soon become a reality with Designer Baby. Designer Baby refers to a baby that its genetics/DNA has been modified by genetic engineering to achieve a specific desired trait. As it may sound like a fascinating science technology for some people and seem like science has endless possibilities, however, are we going to far with genetic engineering? Should there be limits, and should we know where to draw a line? The negative impacts of designer babies outweigh the benefits. It causes more

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    this is called designer babies but would people really go through it. Many people think it's a good thing because they can make there kids in there image and fix any problems the baby's have so that they can live a "peaceful and healthy life." Many other people think it's wrong and should never have been created they think that it's messing with mother nature and that have they ever asked what the kids feel about it the never ask. Many people believe that designer babies are a bad thing

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    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

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    The possibility of a designer perfect baby, is closer to becoming a reality then at the beginning of this millennium. The term that was added to the dictionary in 2004 (Lerner, 2012), refers to 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 modified by genetic engineering. The impacts and issues with genetic engineering are unquestionably evident. Scientists are gaining more knowledge

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    Designer babies are referred to a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially modified via genetic engineering or vitro fertilisation (IVF). IVF is a process of creating an embryo where sperm fertilizes the eggs in a laboratory rather than the mothers tomb. Some traits that could be changed are gender, appearance, intelligence, disease and personality. Embryo screening involves a process named preimplantation genetics diagnosis (PGD). Embryos are created through IVF and grown to the eight-cell

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    2017 Consequences of Designer Babies Technology has made leaps and bounds over the past several years; it has come to have tremendous effects on how we live our lives; from transportation to how quickly we can access information. Recently, technology has begun changing the lives of children, especially infants. A new form of genetic engineering can genetically modify the DNA of an embryo to achieve specific or desirable traits; this is referred to as “Designer Babies”. This procedure will

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    Designer babies are genetically engineered to fit a parents specific desires of their children. They can do things like lower the risk of disease and choose the gender of their future child. A lot of people are for this just as a lot are against it. It can benefit for health reasons and be very bad for social reasons.  (Ly, 2011 March 31st) Designer babies are not yet an every day reality as the decision of putting limits on them in the future is still up in the air. In vitro fertilization has

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    dreadful life and advancing them to our liking and decisions. From the article, designer babies, the babies should have been designed to help parents prevent their next child from having an abnormality like autism and down syndrome. Designer babies is a form of advancing a human. A human shouldn't have the choice of choosing what color eyes, hair, or skin tone. giving people the ability to basically design their own baby is going to affect they way we define humanity, social acceptance, racial issues

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    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. The ethical dilemma of designer babies by Paul Knoepfler talking about

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    The article “Ethics of Designer Babies” by Sarah Ly Keywords addresses a variety of perspectives regarding the controversy if designing your baby with your own characteristic s desired and a less percent of giving them any disease is a ethical or unethical problem for society. In the first place, this article explains the specific definition of designer babies. Designer  babies are a babies whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization

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