The Pros And Cons Of Genetic Engineered Babies

Surfing the net every day, I sometimes stumble upon new technology that might be interesting to know a little about. One of them is genetic engineering of babies. From the little knowledge of mine, that genetic engineered babies can be modify to be immune to certain unwanted genetic disease or given certain traits that allows them to be more intelligent or taller. The modification of traits could be good or bad, depending on how the scientist want it to be. It could be good in a way to have the baby to be immune to genetic disease and bad if the scientist modify the baby with superhuman powers to turn them into a monster or a weapon. There are also many ethical issue in the religious problems of creating or modifying a human, “playing God”, that it’s the God’s job to create us and how they want us to be. This all started

When asked, 83% of the U.S. adults disagree with using this technology to make the baby more intelligent, but only 50% of them disagree when it comes to making the baby immune to serious diseases (Regalado, 2016). If they use it for good to save someone’s life, then its ok, on the other hand, if it were to use in making superhuman, most of them dislike that idea. There has been research done on modifying genes on animal in the past. In the late 1990s, three mice where engineered to have increased muscle growth and strength, to study muscle disease. In another experiment, a Belgian blue cow was modified to that its muscle never stops growing (Simmons, 2016). These were just two of the past experiments of modifying genes. There are other worries that these modification were only available to the rich due to the procedure cost. That an average person couldn’t afford it. It would start a caste system that the rich people could produce intelligent babies while the poor would have to work their way up there (Bess,