Wednesday, December 1, 2010

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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