Designer Babies

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Imagine a girl; beautiful with green eyes and brown hair, intelligent, athletic, and perfect. Now imagine that beautiful intelligent and athletic girl with a horrible personality; mean and hateful. That is the capability of genes. The idea of the use of Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis to adorn and embellish embryos is completely not acceptable. Humans shouldn’t be genetically engineered because designing babies gives the concept of the ideal and perfect baby when humans shouldn’t be perfect. We could use PGD (Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis) to prevent diseases but not to make embryos prettier and smarter. There are many reasons why Designer Babies aren’t a welcome factor in this word like the fact PGD could save lives of children and provide them with healthy lives but we choose to use it for other preposterous purposes. Another rationale is that it is ethically wrong. What’s also horrible about this problem is that there are testing done on animals and crops. The practice of genetically engineering babies should stop because we should use Pre-implantation Genetic diagnosis to help babies live longer and prevent diseases from occurring and not to beautify them and choose their characteristics.
Pre-implantation Genetic diagnosis is the genetic profiling of embryos before implantation and sometimes even of oocytes before fertilization. It is used to screen certain genetics and it is very helpful since it terminates abortion because it helps remove diseases from children so if a family is afraid of having a baby with an inherited deadly disease, PGD could remove this disease. Since PGD isn’t accepted by the Catholic Church and many other religions, it is completely forbidden is some countries. Chile, Switzerland, China, the I...

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...e to increase a human being’s live to 30 years—which I agree is good but only if necessary—. People think Designer babies is the future of our children because it could allows parents to choose what their children look like and what qualities they possess.
There is a reason why humans shouldn’t be perfect, there is a reason God created us with flaws and making people perfect is just...wrong. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis should be used only when it’s necessary, we shouldn’t design out babies, and we shouldn’t test on animals or crops because they can both be harmful. It may not be a big problem because it’s recent, but it is in need of our attention. It needs to end. How would a child feel if it grows up knowing their parents choose what they looked like and their characteristics to fit their standards? Is that what we want to teach our kids in the future?

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