Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD)

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Imagine a future where people order babies like they order a custom car. They could go online and customize their child to their heart’s satisfaction. This future started in 1968 when Robert Edwards and Richard Gardner successfully identified the sex of a pre-embryo rabbit cell. Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) is a test that allows geneticists to see a full living person while others only see a microscopic organism consisting of a few dozen cells. With that knowledge, geneticists can eradicate genetic diseases, allow parents to choose a specific egg out of a dozen, or replace genes with traits that the parents prefer. With this great power there is great possibility for good. But more likely, there is huge chance that this kind of ability will be misused. Funding should not be allocated for research of PGD and similar genetic procedures because it could cause overpopulation, a wealth gap, and a societal disparity. …show more content…

According to the US Department of Health and Human Services, “the twin birth rate has increased by over 75% since 1980, and triplet, quadruplet, and high-order multiple births have increased at an even higher rate. There are more multiple births today in part because more women are receiving infertility treatment.” In the future when people who aren’t infertile are having multiple births, the population could expand drastically. With infertility and genetic disease eliminated, the proliferation of IVF and multiple births could cause an uncontrolled spike in the population. In our society, the last thing needed is millions of children born into rich families because of IVF and

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