Note: This is NOT a designer baby.
You may ask yourself; what is a designer baby? Well, let me tell you! Advanced reproductive technologies allow parents and doctors to screen embrdisorders and select healthy embryos.
The fear is that in the future we may be able to use genetic technologies to modify embryos and choose desirable or cosmetic characteristics. Designer babies is a term used by journalists to describe this frightening scenario. It is not a term used by scientists.
I'll begin by talking about the ethics of this. Being Christian, I think that this is extremely unethical in regards to religion. God creates every human being in His own image and what He sees is good. Although we see black-white colour-blindness as a bad thing, an example would be for example, a child born with black-white colour blindness will see everyone as equal, unlike society today, and will thus have a completely different outlook on life other than if the child was designed to have colour vision. In the end, it's not up to us to change that, as God has plans for everyone and wants that specific person to follow a corresponding path in life.
The fact is, we CAN choose a baby's sex. There are two methods to choosing the sex. The first method involoves sorting out a sample of the father's sperm and dividing the males and females. Then bonding the sperm with the egg.
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Scientists although are somewhat new to experimenting with human genetics for the first time ever, any mistake can result in the possible destruction of the gene pool on the planet earth. Otherwise, if all goes well, we could very well have millions of "perfect" humans running around. In the near future, I wonder if parents will be able to choose a child's IQ level or even the child's personality.
One thing I strongly oppose to is that us human beings, find certain traits to be more attractive than others; height, hair colour, eye colour, skin colour... After parents begin to design their babies worldwide, it will begin to feel like a racial cleansing, or an inverted genocide if you will. Parents will soon begin to pick the traits that they think are more attractive rather than ones they don't, and in the future, certain traits may not be accessible anymore!
The price for choosing you baby's sex? A whopping $19,000 (USD). People from all over the world are travelling to the states to choose their baby's gender. This luxury service may cost a lot now, but like almost every other service in this world, don't you think the price will drop so that an average family can afford it in the future? I believe so, I believe almost every clinic will be offering this service in the future!
So what's your final decision on Designer Babies? I think designer babies are just wrong. I mean, you have a good chance at getting a boy, or a girl, and you're going to love your child either way; so why choose?
Girgis OUT.
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