Made to Order Babies

recall sitting follow up at a t sufficient and being pass on a placard, notwithstanding this is no ordinary menu to order intellectual nourishment off of. No, this menu is at a medical clinic and its the menu to your modernistic customized designer tiddler. Technology has advanced so ofttimes in the past couple years that this situation could hazard very(prenominal) soon. If not in your lifetime, then in that of your childrens. What is a designer mishandle? Its exactly as the words imply a fluff heritableally modified to what the parents call the perfect baby.Today, the sex of the baby, the bull color, and the eye color can all be modified to the excerption of the parent. And soon other intimacys will be possible, such as modifying genetic mistakes in a baby. All of this would probably sound very large-hearted to someone that is just being introduced to the topic, but what about the side set up? Are there any? Is there any possibility that the baby will come out disparageed or with some other defect that was caused by a modification? There are no answers for these questions, because eve scientists and doctors do not know.So, should society take the risk of harming innocent babies to yield and create the perfect baby? No, we should not. The designer baby is immoral and should be illegal. Nobody knows the side effects of modifying a baby, not even the scientists who posture up the research. Not only corporeal side effects, but in like manner horny and societal side effects. We do not know how society would comprehend a genetically modified human. Procedures that are done to modify a baby include terminating some embryos. There are a multitude of people who would see this action as immoral.If there are riots outback(a) of clinics because they think of abortion as being immoral, those same people would near likely riot in protest to designer babies. There is also the question as to what will happen once everyone is perfect and dead modified. What will these perfect people think of those who already fetch genetic defects? They may think of them as inferior, and look down on them. That could lead to a new type of genetic discrimination (Baird 12-16). If laws were do against being able to design babies, then we would not digest to flummox about these problems.In 2009 an article titled Designing Rules for Designer Babies was published in the scientific American magazine. The article reckons In the U. S. , no attach rules deter a private clinic from offering a menu of traits or from implanting a woman with a collection of embryos. Physicians who may receive much than $10,000 for a procedure serve as the sole arbiters of a series of thorny ethical, safety and social wel furtheste questions (29). With no binding laws or rules to this, some doctors will do the procedures just to get the money.It would definitely exact up questions about the doctors morals and if he/she really cares about their patients. Take , for example, Nadya Suleman, whom was infix with genetically altered embryos. The doctor implanted her with a collection of vi embryos. Two of those embryos split, making her pregnant with eight children. It does make everyone question her, but also the doctor. Did he take into account that she already had six children? Did he consider her financial status? (Designing Rules 29)Another question to ask is how far do we go in designing our babies? The same article from Scientific American gives a perfect example of a situation that could happen We could get carried away correcting perfectly healthy babies. Once we start down the slippery slope of eliminating embryos because they are diseased, what is to stop us from picking babies for their physical or psychological traits? What if this does happen? We could create a whole new generation based on what traits are the best for someone, or how internal everyone should be.In doing this, are we not doing the same thing Hitler tried to d o create the perfect humans? It didnt get him very far, and wint get society anywhere today. Some might say that designing a baby would be a great thing. That we could heal diseases and disorders before the baby is even born. But when a baby is intentional to get rid of disease and disorders, there are embryos that are killed in order to find the perfect baby. It could be considered the same thing as abortion. Our technological advances in the past couple years have greatly enhanced ociety. There are also technologies that will harm society. The designer baby is one of those technologies. It sounds very appealing to be able to create the child that you have constantly wanted, but we have always said that we were created the way we are for a reason, and we should keep saying that. No one knows the side effects of creating our babies, they could come out monsters for all we know. If laws were put into effect against the designer baby, then we would be safe from these monsters.