Persuasive Essay On Designer Babies

What if when your mother saw you for the first time, she did not resemble you at all. If everyone in your family had one certain phenotype, and you came out with another. At the end of the day that's fine as long as it was done naturally. Is there an unnatural way of doing this? Indeed, this is a term we like to call designer babies. Usually during this process selected genes are added into an embryo of an unborn child outside the stomach of the mother. This is not yet legal, but the technology for it is upon us, but why would any parent want to do this? They might not fear the risks but they may have insecurities, and might know that their child will be born with an illness.

To start off, considering a family does choose to genetically modify and separate a child from the true family line of genes can have really bad risks. The procedure in which designer babies are made outside the mother's stomach like stated before the main questions for this is "Is the baby getting enough food and nutrients?" Although, that is not the only risk. Just putting the genes inside is a risk...The embryo inside can pop causing the baby to die. On the other hand this can be justified, all birth can lead to a miscarriage natural or not. Having a designer baby or natural baby, both children will get the same kind of care to make it out safely.
They might have a designer baby in hopes that the child will come out and be everything they were not. Though who has the right to judge, and already think of the faults an unborn child might or might not have? Studies show that 54% of women ages 18 through 40, are insecure with their bodies and 33% percent of men are this way as well...With numbers that high, maybe having a designer baby is the only way parents can guarantee a higher probability of coming out "perfect" or more appealing to others making any insecure parent happy for what they will have to