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Chrissy Teigen Legend Designer Babies

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Designer Babies Designing your child is becoming more and more popular as the discoveries progress. The excitement of what gender it will be will be gone. Recent discoveries are making "designing your child" a possibility. Whether it's a blessing or a curse is yet to be determined because it is in the early stages of this. Designer babies are not going to be used to their full potential therefor unless in dire need, they should not be used. Celebrities Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are current results of the designer babies. Much controversy has been over whether it's ethical to chose the gender of their child. Many critics are claiming it's unethical and "is upsetting the natural process." (Storrs) Teigen and Legend had trouble conceiving a child without the …show more content…

Many scientists agree that this discovery shouldn't be taken lightly and stupidly. Designing should only go as far as helping with diseases. As technology becomes more advanced in this field, it will become more common and eventually not become as rare. Babies being changed to fit beauty standards isn't relevant to the important things happening. This is something that needs to be argued by every point of view to completely grasp the severity of the topic. "It would also be useful in circumstances when all embryos would carry the undesirable, risky genes." (Gallagher) Which means messing with the embryos and experimenting would help terminate diseases. Designing babies is heavily arguable and heavily questionable about whether it's ethical or not. Designing children should not be taken lightly and used for extreme cases. Using it for simple things such as eye and hair color wastes this discovery and lessens the impact and thinks it's okay. It's amazing and amazing to be able to pick the gender or color of things on your children, but should we really waste such an amazing thing on simple

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