topic of Designer Babies – babies that are created by genetic screening or engineering combined with in vitro fertilization‚ in order to ensure the absence or presence of a particular gene or characteristic. What are designer babies? You may ask. Is it similar to a comparism between normal bags you buy from BHG and designer LV bags? No! It is more like a Hermes bag‚ where we are able to design and customize our very own babies! We can select eye colour‚ hair colour‚ the gender of the baby and any
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Before the arrival of in vitro fertilization and genetic engineering‚ creating a designer baby was basically a science fiction conceptualization. In today’s day and age with the advances of modern technology a theory such as creating a designer baby could become a realization. An individual possesses the right to have free will and to exercise those rights with out any resistance. From an ethics standpoint‚ the reasoning by committing such an action has to be taken into account. Would it be strictly
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Designer Babies I’ve been poked and prodded at ever since I can remember‚ but what I didn’t know was that I was actually a poked and prodded at individual even before my existence. Transplanted DNA is what they should have named me instead of Wang. I find my existence to be not as real or as wanted as others who were conceived naturally with both loving parents and even the idea of other loving parents adopting their children. It just seems unfair that my parents would make decisions for me before
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make my baby a girl and add few more smarts in there‚” a women gives an order on her baby as the doctor makes the bill. If you have the money‚ why not design your own perfect baby? Many advances in the world of science have been made‚ especially in the field of genetic engineering. What was never thought possible has now swept the world off its feet. The era of designer babies has yet to come. However‚ the right question is‚ is this ethical and moral ; should it be allowed? The term “designer baby”
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Designer Babies How would you like your baby to be? Tall‚ blonde‚ smart or sporty? There is now technology which enables us to do this. “Designer babies” is now an up and coming technology as more and more people are looking into using it to create their “perfect” child. In this day and age the topic of designer babies is very controversial between people. Some people see it as wrong‚ that a baby should choose how it lives its life. Not their parent before the baby is even born. Of the U.K’s
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Designer Babies Thousands of couples take their children to build-a-bear workshops every year to build and design a perfect teddy bear but the fact that there are also “build-a-baby” workshops is preposterous! Thousands of couples from around the world are using new reproductive technology not to procreate or save a baby’s life but to build a “perfect baby” and in the process they end up killing many babies. There have been more than 4000 cases of successful gender selected babies due to new technology
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transmit featured genes into their fertilized eggs through IVF (in vitro fertilization clinic)‚ and these so-called genetic engineers are able to mutate both internal and external physical traits exactly the way our dear parents desire. Sharon Begley‚ in her “Designer Babies‚” portrays how genetic engineers and scientists have recently come to an issue that would involve our radical opinions of direct manipulation. She acknowledges and addresses both the positive and negative effects of the IVF‚ but
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Designer Babies Parents can now pick a kid’s sex and screen for genetic illness. Will they someday select brains and beauty too? In the ever- advancing technological world‚ scientists discover new and efficient ways to advance society each and every single day. Imagine being able to choose your child’s body type‚ or personality‚ or IQ. It is not as farfetched as it sounds. It’s a process called "Gene Therapy"‚ and is being perfected right now. This process rules out any unknown’s in childbirth
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in my head. The world just has started to get accustomed to possibility of human cloning; modern technologies allowed scientists to discover new opportunities‚ such as “designer babies”. This term causes in my mind lively imagination of a couple‚ cautiously selecting every trait and feature from a catalogue for their future baby‚ such as gender‚ color of skin‚ eye and hair‚ height‚ beauty‚ talents. The entire idea is both exciting and frightening and definitely raises ethical issues. As a student
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children’s genetic traits will become available. People will have the power to engineer their children to be smarter‚ stronger‚ taller‚ and even predetermine the gender. This technology is referred to as Eugenics‚ but the products are commonly called designer babies. Although this technology isn’t entirely available it is causing quite the debates. Which leads many people to think: what are the pros and cons to genetic engineering? According to Stephen Baird‚ “Some will curse these new technologies‚ sounding
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