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Genetic Engineering Babies

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The escalating supremacy and receptiveness of genetic technology to engineer and "design babies," now gives parents the option to modify their unborn children, consecutively to prevent their offspring's from receiving genetic disorders such as: "sickle cell diseases, cystic fibrosis and down syndrome ," or conceivably, make them blue eye coloured, intelligent or else blessed with enviable qualities. Would this mean there will be an increase in the superiority among the rich, both physically and mentally, or will this modification be available for all to exploit, or would we be evidencing engineered babies facing unexpected genetic predicament? The highly contentious issue of designing unborn children to be a perfect "epitome" is thoroughly investigated and examined in the article of, lead author of …show more content…

The presence of several sophisticated persuasive techniques that capture audience are used right through Mrs Riley's article, which includes: rhetorical questions, statistics, exaggeration and an assortment of expert opinions which all work in duo to solidify Mrs Riley's contention. In addition, Mrs Riley's target audience mainly incorporates the 'white collared' people (well educated citizens), as well as parents who desire to conceive with a child. Using a concerned tone to express her opinion on "the gender of a child being selected like an item of a menu," later adopting a more informative tone to put emphasis on the negative and positive aspect of designer babies, Mrs Riley makes quite a genuine effort to gain credibility from her target audiences, which she largely accomplishes through her passion for the

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