Understanding Genetic Engineering

Genetic Engineering
With the advancement of technology over the years, we as a society have created ways to do things that were completely unimaginable not long ago. These technological advancements have led to the development in medical research and treatment. The things that hospitals can do nowadays are mind blowing on a scale that is ridiculous is size. Technology in the medical field has led to things like cloning, gene splicing, skin grafts, transplants, transfusions, and many more amazing innovations. But some of these medical practices are controversial, debated, and sometimes even banned in the United States of America. One of newest advancements that have only been majorly used in crop and animals so far is genetic engineering. Genetic engineering has already been debated and is a very controversial topic in the medical field when it comes to the engineering of children. What if you could genetically modify children before and after they are born so that you could have the flawless child? Would you? What if you had to because the life of you or your child depended on it? What if your child was going to have birth defects? What if you wanted a boy instead of a girl? What if you could make your child smarter, faster, stronger, or better at something like music or sports? And could genetic engineering lead to eugenics? There are tons of questions that can be asked about this amazing ability to change children so that they can grow up to be perfect, but the big one is what kind of laws could this break and do parents have the right to privacy when it comes to choosing whether or not they should modify their child.
Fact: genetic modification is already used to create crops and animals that are leaner and that can sustain t...

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...n that aren’t fortunate enough to be genetically modified but standards can be set to scale to scale the modified from the unmodified along with separating in schools and laws that require more from the modified. There are plenty of ways to balance it until everyone is modified. Parents have the right to privacy and if they want to modify their children then there should be no laws making it illegal. For the people that believe in intelligent design, if there is such thing as intelligent design, he gave us the tools and the minds to be able to do the things we can today so why should that be limited. As far as I know modifying a child isn’t illegal. We can do things to limit the modifications to be sure that its control and to prevent disasters but it isn’t illegal, therefore, under the implied right to privacy, genetic modification in children should be allowed.