Designer Babies

Do you remember when you were young and always wanted to be a superhero? Today, you can virtually create your own child superhero by genetic engineering and designer babies. What color eyes and hair would it have? Would you make it smart, athletic, or both? These are all possible if you choose designer babies instead of natural conception. Herbert Boyer and Stanley Cohen first established genetic engineering in 1973 (Bellis 1). It wasn’t until around 1996 when they first started to allow parents to choose their babies gender. Though most states do not allow for such detailed genetic engineering to take place, scientists are still conducting research so it will be a more common choice. Science has endless possibilities, but how far is too far

Robert Klitzman expresses a woman’s concern on what to do about genetic engineering for, “she feared she would be playing God” (Klitzman 1). The bible says, “for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God prepared beforehand, that we should walk in them,” Ephesians 2:10. By the scientist creating these embryos they are not doing “good works” especially when they are destroying the unwanted embryos and killing innocent children.
They are sinning in two ways, first by trying to take away from God being our creator and second by aborting and killing the embryos they decided were not good enough. Murder is murder no matter what the circumstances. Genesis 9:6 says, “whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man shall his blood be shed, for in the image of God made He man,” clearly stating that God created man and no man should ever kill another man. Though religion only applies to certain people, any procedure that involves killing effects everyone, including other children in the