No such thing as a perfect child?

            Imagine a world where parents can choose their perfect dream baby out of a catalogue, being able to ask for an intelligent and social child with green eyes and blonde hair. It would be easy as ordering pizza with all of your favourite toppings. But how do we know when enough is enough? Is the reality of designing a baby going too far? I think so. This is my first ever time hearing about “designer babies” with their genes and traits that goes against nature. In my opinion, it’s like saying you want your child to be perfect that people in fact would pay to have the doctors construct a baby of your dreams. Designer Baby refers to the genetic change of the child in its early life. Scientists and their advancing technological world can actually allow parents to choose their child’s gender and screen for genetic illness.

                   With science controlling the fusion of chromosomes, many of the deadly or physical diseases that will harm newborns will disappear. Scientist' say they can pick out disease causing genes in the pre-natal stage before they grow. Controlling infant disease is only one part of the new technology. Determining a child's sex will also reflect on society's views of gender roles in the world. I find this situation very inhumane. Everyone has flaws and no one should be perfect. I think of it as cheating nature.

                  One of the fears is that it can manipulate the ratio of boys to girls. Some religious groups don't like doctors messing with what they call, "God's plan." Other critics worry about the future. Most say it can  be opening doors to humanity where there are new kinds of inequality and discrimination, a world that we should  not live in. I understand that most parents want their children to be successful and healthy, but fusing embryos to make the child successful and healthier later in life is unreasonable. In the future, if designer babies increase, then most of the population will consist of designer babies.

            

      The Pros of designing a baby is genetic screening that can cut the baby's chances of being born with a number of serious diseases that can shorten their life and harm their health and living. Even though the pros are reasonable, in turn, that prevents the child from becoming who he/ she were supposed to be. Because I think if you made the child to be more intelligent and social than artistic, they might grow up following a completely different path than what God had planned for them. The cons of rebuilding a baby is that your baby can lose its genetic unevenness and can even boost the chance for their own kids to get genetic diseases.


  A human, born or unborn, has the right to have his/her own personality, naturally and originally created by a mother and father, not a scientist. What right does sciences have thinking that they can just step in and takeover mother nature and the natural process?

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Refrences:
"Pros and Cons of Designer Babies"
"Pre-Genetic Implantation Diagnosis Pros and Cons"
"Designer Babies: Ethical Considerations"
"Designer Babies""The One Minute Case for Designer Babies"

Blogs I Commented On:
"VanezzaBioBlog"
"It'sBioTime!"

One Woman. So Many Lives Saved.

             We have been aware that humans hunt and slaughter innocent animals. For their skin, horns, meat, and even for no reason at all. Even worse, humans would as well wipe out huge areas of their habitat leaving hundreds homeless to die. But for the orangutans, who was extremely close to extinction, everything changed.
              Orangutans lived all over South East Asia before they were victims of extinction. Their home was covered of vast areas of tropical rain forest. The orangutans had freedom to move freely, bringing life and diversity to this valuable Earth resource. In today’s world, because of forest destruction a highly-increasing human population, the used-to-be orangutan’s only home, completely reduced to small isolated patches. What replaced this once wild, perfect land were cities full of cities, villages with agricultural areas and palm oil plantations. Orangutans were victims of forest destruction, fires and hunting. Because of this, from 30-40,000 orangutans predicted to be living today, 5,000 orangutans are killed or die every year.

             Lone Droscher-Neilsen was the woman who gave her up her life in Denmark to settle down in Borneo after she was moved by the traumas experienced by these creature. It was like love at first sight. Lone’s existence has never been the same. She has devoted her last 17 years of her life making certain that orangutans don’t hit extinction. She has founded and managed Nyaru Menteng Sanctuary and heads the rescue operations to accumulate orangutans that would have had no possibility of living.

             Lone was a replacement mother to orangutans. She orphaned the babies and adults and took full care of them. Her whole life changed when her journey began in her early thirties. She volunteered at an orangutan center in Borneo. It was the very first time in her life she came into close contact with an orangutan. And since then, she knew she wanted to make a change.

              In November 1999, Lone Neilsen opened her own rehabilitation and rescue centre for orangutans in Nyaru Menteng. For a very successful ten years, Lone fought for the survival of the orangutans. It was a difficult rising battle in the beginning, but Lone refused to give up, and in the end, it paid off. She gave her word to them that she will never stop fighting to save them. Beings today do not clearly see what such beautiful animals we have in the world. It is truly remarkable how one human being can make the disasters from the past fade. Lone without doubt committed herself to changing the lives of the orangutans.

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Refrences:
"Save The Orangutan" - http://www.savetheorangutan.co.uk/
"EcoBites" - http://ecobites.com/eco-news-articles/nature-and-environment/340-save-the-orangutans

Blogs I Commented On:
"Kaitlin's bio blog" - http://yay4bio.blogspot.com/2010/09/eight-year-old-receives-wwf-philippines.html?showComment=1288589932581#c5121128459157695621
"Kendra's It's Bio Time" - http://itsbiotime.blogspot.com/2010/09/national-audubon-society.html?showComment=1288588478018#c3277087811420809644