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
Parents should not have the choice to pick the characteristics and intelligence of their baby, they should have to accept what both of the parents contribute to the child in terms of characteristics and intelligence. Designer babies violate your baby's basic human rights, the parents are changing the life and mind of a living human without any
Have you ever asked yourself is it possible to pick and choose your kids characteristics and appearance? If you ever have thought about this topic it is called designer babies and the technology used to do this is called CRISPR. In 2015 scientists in China tried to modify human embryos so that they could edit the genes of the embryos.(OI) This test failed horribly with all 86 of the embryos dying.(OI) Many people hope that one day designer babies will be a thing. I disagree with genetically modifying humans because in the bible it states, “God made you perfectly in his own image.”
I personally do not agree with the idea of designer babies as you are changing the outcome of your baby and you are not accepting them as they are, you are changing their appearance the traits they would have had. You can’t use the excuse for medical reasons as cancer or heart disease develop over time and not when the baby is born. Now having a child is a big responsibility and if you are already deciding how you want your kid and what you want them to look like you might not be ready for a child. You should accept your child for who they are if you get a kid with a bad personality what's the point of being a parent if you can’t show them the right path or how to act. The child will no longer be yours but be the laboratories “experiment”.
In the chapter “Designer Babies” in the book Philosophy Gym by Stephen Law, discusses the possibility of designer babies, which would allow parents to choose the sex, intelligence, and appearance of their child. The pros and cons of this are discusses, along with the question of whether or not it would be morally right to be able to do this. I personally believe that it is not morally right to be able to “design” a child, because humans are made to be imperfect, and I believe that some of the ideologies behind “designing” are similar to that of the Nazis, and the belief that there could be a superior race of humans.
You may have not thought about issues that come along with genetics and the genetic makeup of a human being. This includes but not limited to how your child will look, will the offspring have your features, the fathers features, or even one of the grandparents' features. This has caused many stakeholders to debate on whether genetic engineering should be allowed and to what extent. Meaning, should we be able to design our children based on how we want them to look or to prevent them from obtaining some detrimental conditions? Most would base their opinions on the “fun” part of designing your baby and how cool that may seem. In a study by Salah, Yaz, a publisher for Emaze
This following essay will discuss about how the advantages of designer babies potentially act as the enhancer that emerge the harms in the society. It is just because of this advanced benefits that introduced the disadvantages of designer babies. It is likely that there will be both moral and safety objections as there has been for in vitro fertilization, stem cell science and early gene therapy. The moral objections range from concerns about the manipulation of the germline to worries about the patenting or commercialization of the technology itself. The safety concerns, much like we saw with early recombinant DNA research include both potential dangers to the offspring of patients treated and to the
Do you really wanna change the way your child looks because you're unsatisfied with yourself? Designer babies should not be a thing because we shouldn’t change the ways the babies are made. It costs too much to have a designer baby made. You should be happy the way your baby comes out. Something can happen during the process, and the baby can mess up.
One now has the ability to alter their child’s hair and eye color which Hitler tried to do with killing the men, women and children that didn't fit the look of his ideal “Aryan race”. With the availability of choosing a child’s characteristics there could essentially be a more popularized and desired look that become the trend, and could lead to the type of segregated beliefs as pushed in Nazi Germany. The ability to have people choose their unborn child’s genetic makeup will most likely be only available to the wealthy from the cost of this procedure, and may lead to segregation from the ideal look that the wealthy would choose. A comparable look at this concept would be “The climate in Nazi Germany from 1939 onwards, if not earlier, was dangerous for those who did not fit the ideal Aryan race, and those who did not conform to Nazi beliefs were under the threat of work camps or even death”. Changing a society's characteristics could accidentally rank the people of our society from their wealth, the Nazi’s eliminated the races and unfit characteristics they felt were below them by killing off them. Giving the opportunity to make the wealthy look even more considerably different from the poor and have alike traits would create a more civil divide that could be compared to the divide in Nazi Germany. People would don’t have the traits chosen
How would you feel if your parents told you that you aren't supposed to look the way you look. Having designer babies are unnecessary because changing the way your baby looks is just cruel. This is also unhealthy and dangerous because they will probably not come out the way it is supposed to or they may die. They will also not have the same traits that they are supposed to have.
Designer babies to some are viewed as an awful thing or ‘playing god’ mostly because of their beliefs or simply because they feel as though it should be left alone. Others believe that it is a good thing and that it can help with a lot of things. I am going to be explaining how it can be both a good thing and bad thing or in this case, pros and cons of it
It is right to choose the features of the baby because it prevents future diseases, reduces the risk of babies with serious disorders like cancer. Designer babies carry genes that their parents may not keep, this means that the new genes that are desired will now be in the family gene pool. Furthermore, designer babies can get rid of the gene for a past family disease or disorder. The positive impact is that ‘designer babies’ allow parents to give their child a healthy life because parents would not pick the characteristics and features that will make their baby unhealthy. Designer babies will give the parents the opportunity to create their ‘perfect’ child. For instance, parents can choose for their baby to have red hair, blue eyes, gender
When it comes to the subject of designer babies, or even the thought of being able to create a 'perfect' child there is either controversy or pure relief. The reason being because when it comes to designing babies there is good as well as bad. For example some may say being able to genetically modify a baby so it has no chances of coming out deformed or even with mental or psychical diseases and disabilities is a miracle. Others may say that in the law of ethics this can not be acceptable. The fact the you're choosing your child's fate is ‘wrong’ stating that whether a child ends up with a disease is life, we should not be able to control it. Which makes sense yes, unless you're talking about two parents who can't have children because
Have you ever had a desire to have kids but hesitated because a lot of health issues occur through your family and you do not want your child to experience the same thing? Those thoughts sometimes run across my mind so I think genetically building my baby would be a good idea. For those who are unaware, a designer baby is designed to fix or change the baby while it is still in the womb to achieve a more desired look and give your child genes that you may not have. I think it is a good idea because I would want to create my child to be respectful, intelligent, and healthy. I want him/her to look nice but I will focus on creating them to have a strong mentality so they will always stay focused in life. Raising kids comes with a lot of
Being able to modify appearance is only a mere example of what could potentially occur in the near future. As of now, the only thing you can choose about your baby is if it's a boy or a girl. But after this becomes old news, it won't be enough for scientists and parents. People are greedy. If they want something they will stop at no cost to achieve their goal. Opening this door of “opportunity” will lead to a very bad place. This is a “for-profit industry”, meaning that eventually it will be run on greed if it isn't already.
Imagine a world where having a baby was like looking through a menu at some fancy restaurant. Imagine being able to choose how a baby will look and act. As mind-boggling as it sounds, scientists and researchers came across an unbelievable discovery: it is possible to design and edit a baby however a person may like. Hanson asserts that personality, gender, appearance, intelligence, hair color, and height can be changed using technology that was originally used for animals (Hanson). These babies are called designer babies. Phillip Ball, a science writer, claims that it is possible to change the genetic makeup of an unborn baby using bio-technology. However, these changes can have more negative effects than positive. Although most countries have not legislated the use of genetic modification, studies have been done on human embryos in China (Ball).