My Sister's Keeper Research Paper

One of the major topics we touched on in class was, should we continue to use technology to manipulate genes to make "designer babies"? I had come across the topic before in a book called My Sister's Keeper. While I believe it is quiet noble to give one of your organs to help another being survive especially someone like your sister, I think it is wrong to simply have a child for that sole purpose: to be an organ and blood donor. In this case as a designer baby, the child would have no initial say as to whether they want to actually partake in donating their organs and blood or not. Ethics certainly plays an immense part in making "designer babies" due to a lack of foresight that technology cannot give us. I am truly split on this topic.
People begin to confuse a baby with a build-a-bear. They use technolgy to manipluate traits such as eye color, skin tone, height, and so on. This seemingly innocent act, could have more cynical motivation behind than we could even imagine. A racist person could manipulate their child to have their prefered traits to appear "whiter". Let's think back about 100 years ago. If this type of technology had been available, what would today's current population look like today? Would everyone have white skin and light eyes? Would the other "races" become extinct overtime? Different civilizations, particularly coloniziers, completely destroyed cultures and forced people to instead assimilate to theirs. If they did not assimilate, a mass genocide would commence. What would make race any different if in those times they could manipulate what a person looked like? It is a scary thought, but that is what we risk with having a person choose what their child looks like. We truly do not know what their intentions would be. It is a slippery slope down the path divided between what is ethical and what is not; what is beneficial to society as a whole and what is detrimental to it and the