Argumentative Essay On Designer Babies

Human culture has a constant drive for perfection in all aspects of life. People are determined to achieve the best jobs, the best homes and the best form of “living”. Even if all those things are well achieved, humans are driven to strive for more. There seems to be no point where this controlling behavior will get to a stopping point. Recently, technological advancements in medical sciences have allowed potential parents to genetically “play” with preferred traits in an unborn baby. Parents can now decide, with a lot of money in their hands, the way their baby is going to look. However, many scientists believe that these advancements are just the beginning and that within a decade it can be possible to select for a broad range of traits from physical attributes to personality type. Jeremy Rifkin, a biotech critic states that: “It’s the ultimate shopping experience: designing your baby” (Lemonick, 1999, p. 3.) The next generations are going to be filled with these babies that are born perfectly normal, not because they were lucky, but because their parents saved all their money to create him/her. Genetic engineering can be used to prevent any life threatening diseases, however it should not be allowed to use it for superficial purposes by the parents because it will create a generation that …show more content…
The concept however, has been appeared in the society since 1997 with the movie “Gattaca”, where the fate of every human being is controlled by the Gattaca Corporation, based on the person genes. The movie was labeled as a futuristic sci-fi thriller. However, that futuristic scenario seems to be already here. For the first time in history, at 2009, a process known as Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis or PGD was allowing parents to choose the sex of their baby, even why was originally developed for disease screening. Researchers linked to Bionet point