Genetic Engineering Argumentative Essay

Over the past few months, our class have been observing and learning a few things about genetic engineering. After reading and annotating all the sources, my point on this argument is that genetic engineering is allowed for everyone, but we do need limits for this. Genetic Engineering can bring lots of health benefits so that everyone can have a chance of a healthy life. It can help us learn things we never knew about our own genetics and see what life threatening can be treated. However, as with everything, we need to have realize that we need to have limits on genetic engineering or else it would go out of hand. Allowing genetic engineering can increase the life of a baby that is suffering with diseases that can affect their life. If you were a parent, would you do nothing to ensure that child doesn’t have hemophilia? “While it can help, at some point you cross the line between handicap and inconvenience, but people will disagree about where”(Wright). “In the 1970s, as the first human embryos were being produced outside the human body, many critics treated in vitro fertilization and human cloning as equally pregnant developments, with genetic engineering lurking not far behind”(Cohen). James Watson testified before the U.S. congress in 1971, declaring that we must pass laws about cloning now before it is too late.

We can use genetic engineering as a mean of knowing something about “our biological destiny, about health and sickness in the future”(McElroy).In Illinois, the Illinois Humanities Council (IHC) has commened a year-long project designed to increase public knowledge of genetics. “The arts offered an avenue for cultural exploration and meaningful exchange that is essential to public discourse on genetics and other emerging technologies”(Rhodes). Genetic Engineering helps us learn more about ourselves and helps us develop more useful resources in the