What hair color? Tall or short? Smart or athletic? Imagine that you are able to choose the traits of your child, would you create a perfect baby or conceive your baby naturally? Researchers have been saying that parents will be able to choose their child’s genes. This can be done by placing a sperm and an egg on a plate to be observed and modified. By PGD, preimplantation genetic diagnosis, and genetic therapy, human embryos can be checked for genetic defects and can be inserted genes that treat diseases. Of course, parents will always want their children to be healthy and successful. Being able to create designer babies might change the future both in a good or a bad way, it’s just a matter of time. Parents creating designer babies will help
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The PGD technology is used for checking genes and scanning embryos for any functional disorders. Babies that were checked by PGD and born are meant to be healthy and be in a really good shape. As seen in the movie Gattaca, Vincent was born with a heart disease and was expected to only live for 30 years. On the other hand, Vincent’s brother Anton has inserted a gene that prevented his chance of heart disease. Throughout the movie, Vincent is depicted as a fragile man while Anton was shown as a tough man. This type of technology could really save many human lives and can prevent children from dying at an early age. According to the article written by Allen Goldberg, modifying genes could actually help families avoid harmful genetics. For example, before placed in the dish, embryos could go through PGD and can get removed any harmful genes that could potentially cause the disease to their baby. This means a generation of the family could be saved from fatal diseases. Scientists being able to remove and modify gene is a really huge step in human health and will prevent people from dying at an early …show more content…
Due to the fact that designer babies are worth $100,000, not everyone would be able to afford it. People may be imagining that a big discrimination might occur between the naturally conceived children and the designer babies just like the movie Gattaca. Discrimination is one of the main themes of Gattaca and it shows how upper-class and lower-class people are divided. Our society facing a discrimination like Gattaca is just unrealistic. There is no way that rich and poor people will get completely divided. Even if designers babies might be only for the rich, it doesn’t guarantee that every wealthy person will create a designer baby. No matter educated or uneducated, healthy or unhealthy, rich or poor, everyone is still becoming friends and working together. Therefore, designer babies will not cause a massive discrimination and will only encourage to improve the
The PGD technology is used for checking genes and scanning embryos for any functional disorders. Babies that were checked by PGD and born are meant to be healthy and be in a really good shape. As seen in the movie Gattaca, Vincent was born with a heart disease and was expected to only live for 30 years. On the other hand, Vincent’s brother Anton has inserted a gene that prevented his chance of heart disease. Throughout the movie, Vincent is depicted as a fragile man while Anton was shown as a tough man. This type of technology could really save many human lives and can prevent children from dying at an early age. According to the article written by Allen Goldberg, modifying genes could actually help families avoid harmful genetics. For example, before placed in the dish, embryos could go through PGD and can get removed any harmful genes that could potentially cause the disease to their baby. This means a generation of the family could be saved from fatal diseases. Scientists being able to remove and modify gene is a really huge step in human health and will prevent people from dying at an early …show more content…
Due to the fact that designer babies are worth $100,000, not everyone would be able to afford it. People may be imagining that a big discrimination might occur between the naturally conceived children and the designer babies just like the movie Gattaca. Discrimination is one of the main themes of Gattaca and it shows how upper-class and lower-class people are divided. Our society facing a discrimination like Gattaca is just unrealistic. There is no way that rich and poor people will get completely divided. Even if designers babies might be only for the rich, it doesn’t guarantee that every wealthy person will create a designer baby. No matter educated or uneducated, healthy or unhealthy, rich or poor, everyone is still becoming friends and working together. Therefore, designer babies will not cause a massive discrimination and will only encourage to improve the