The parents may also manipulate the embryo to try and get rid of certain diseases that can be passed down, like cancer or sickle cell for example. While this may solve health issues, which will be discussed more later on, it can cause a human being to never be able to live. “…for the disabled embryos never receive the chance to live” (Kim). It could be very possible that a child could grow up and live a perfectly healthy life, but since even the slightest chance of a child having that disease or disability, the embryo will get thrown out because it would be a possible “undesirable” trait.
People can easily argue designer babies by saying future generations can be cleared of diseases as well as improving other parts of the body. For example, …show more content…
Firstly, there could be parents that could not afford to be able to choose their child’s traits. Those parents as well as their non-perfect children would be looked down on because they might still carry some sort of disease or have a disability (Caplan). Not to mention that there could be less women, at least in other countries where men are highly favored, like India or China. Plus, designer babies cause discrimination towards the disabled. “PGD itself as a “social establishment of a procedure, the explicit goal of which is to prevent the existence of sick and disabled people” does discriminate against the disabled” …show more content…
As of now, it is only used to remove diseases from parents to offspring in a certain process. First, an eight-cell stage would be created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) which is when the eggs are removed from the woman, fertilized by a sperm in a laboratory and introduced back into the womb. Then, two of the cells are removed, checked for genetic variants that could lead to disease and inserted back into the womb only after being checked to make sure that they are free of these variants. Therefore, the child would be disease free
People can easily argue designer babies by saying future generations can be cleared of diseases as well as improving other parts of the body. For example, …show more content…
Firstly, there could be parents that could not afford to be able to choose their child’s traits. Those parents as well as their non-perfect children would be looked down on because they might still carry some sort of disease or have a disability (Caplan). Not to mention that there could be less women, at least in other countries where men are highly favored, like India or China. Plus, designer babies cause discrimination towards the disabled. “PGD itself as a “social establishment of a procedure, the explicit goal of which is to prevent the existence of sick and disabled people” does discriminate against the disabled” …show more content…
As of now, it is only used to remove diseases from parents to offspring in a certain process. First, an eight-cell stage would be created by in vitro fertilization (IVF) which is when the eggs are removed from the woman, fertilized by a sperm in a laboratory and introduced back into the womb. Then, two of the cells are removed, checked for genetic variants that could lead to disease and inserted back into the womb only after being checked to make sure that they are free of these variants. Therefore, the child would be disease free