Genetic Engineering: The Ethics Of Designer Babies

Roll up roll up! Bring your partner, grab a seat, pick a catalogue and start choosing. Will you go for the red hair or blonde? Would you prefer blue eyes or green? Tall or short? Funny or clever? Boy or girl? Do you want them to be sports hero? Or a slender and intelligent bookworm? Imagine a perfect world, where everyone is perfect and is designed a certain way. Designed how your parents wanted you to be like. Now, imagine the feelings once you find out, that you were made into the child your parents thought was "the perfect child".
I am here to discuss why I am against genetic engineering of babies, and to tell you the ethical and the demographic problem of this practice. Genetic Engineering, also known as ‘Designer Babies', is where parents …show more content…
The act of choosing a baby's gender and ensuring their child is free of birth defects may lead to everyone being "perfect", which is not how our society works. A society filled with discrimination should not be allowing science to encourage a method that allows narrow-minded and biased parents to be able to select everything about their unborn baby. Using this method will spark gender stereotypes and the assumption that one sex is superior to the other. For example, is engineered to be intelligent, to live longer, and to live a life without a disorder, may lead to demographic problems. (Genetic Engineering in Humans, 2)
Secondly, genetic engineering produces psychological implications and sexual discrimination, where parents will be expecting their child to act and think in a gender-specific way. These children should not have to deal with this pressure of expectations from their parents. A study shows that most parents preferred boy child over girl child, which lead more boys than girls leading to an increased population of males. (Adams, 3). "There is a great deal of uncertainty and fear about what may happen once the scientist starts to "mess" with offspring's DNA." (Future Human Evolution,