The Genetic Modification of Human Embryos:
The Negative Effects of an Unknown Process Imagine you are in the doctor’s office and you are told, “Congratulations for wanting a child! Now it is time to select your options.” You sit there with your spouse and decide the sex, hair and eye color, height, and DNA of your future child, just as you would customize a new car that you are buying. The issue is, however: what if you choose the wrong options, and when did nature disappear in the reproduction system? This could be the future if genetic modification of human embryos develops and becomes available beyond scientists in the lab. Genetic enhancement is defined as, “The transfer of genetic material intended to modify nonpathological human traits” …show more content…
A Companion to Genethics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Print.
Dresser, Rebecca. "Genetic Modification Of Preimplantation Embryos: Toward Adequate Human Research Policies." Milbank Quarterly 82.1 (2004): 195-214. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
Evans, John H. "Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate." The Quarterly Review of Biology Morality and Society Series 78.2 (2003): 211-12. June 2003. Web. 2 Nov. 2015. .
"Gender Non-Conforming & Transgender Children." Healthy Children. American Academy of Pediatrics, 21 Nov. 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015. .
Hanna, Kathi E. United States. National Human Genome Research Institute. Genetic Enhancement. N.p., Apr. 2006. Web. 10 Nov. 2015. .
Newman, Stuart, PhD. "The Hazards of Human Developmental Gene Modification.” The Hazards of Developmental Gene Modification. N.p., 2015. Web. 10 Nov. 2015. .
Sara McCormack Wilson, Thomas R. Mertens, and Jon R. Hendrix. “Human Genetic Engineering: A Survey of Student Value Stances”. The American Biology Teacher 37.9 (1975): 522–527. Web…
Snibbe, Alana Conner, PhD. "Taking the 'vs.' out of Nature vs. Nurture." American Psychological Association. N.p., Nov. 2004. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.
The Negative Effects of an Unknown Process Imagine you are in the doctor’s office and you are told, “Congratulations for wanting a child! Now it is time to select your options.” You sit there with your spouse and decide the sex, hair and eye color, height, and DNA of your future child, just as you would customize a new car that you are buying. The issue is, however: what if you choose the wrong options, and when did nature disappear in the reproduction system? This could be the future if genetic modification of human embryos develops and becomes available beyond scientists in the lab. Genetic enhancement is defined as, “The transfer of genetic material intended to modify nonpathological human traits” …show more content…
A Companion to Genethics. Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002. Print.
Dresser, Rebecca. "Genetic Modification Of Preimplantation Embryos: Toward Adequate Human Research Policies." Milbank Quarterly 82.1 (2004): 195-214. Academic Search Premier. Web. 10 Nov. 2015.
Evans, John H. "Playing God?: Human Genetic Engineering and the Rationalization of Public Bioethical Debate." The Quarterly Review of Biology Morality and Society Series 78.2 (2003): 211-12. June 2003. Web. 2 Nov. 2015. .
"Gender Non-Conforming & Transgender Children." Healthy Children. American Academy of Pediatrics, 21 Nov. 2015. Web. 13 Dec. 2015. .
Hanna, Kathi E. United States. National Human Genome Research Institute. Genetic Enhancement. N.p., Apr. 2006. Web. 10 Nov. 2015. .
Newman, Stuart, PhD. "The Hazards of Human Developmental Gene Modification.” The Hazards of Developmental Gene Modification. N.p., 2015. Web. 10 Nov. 2015. .
Sara McCormack Wilson, Thomas R. Mertens, and Jon R. Hendrix. “Human Genetic Engineering: A Survey of Student Value Stances”. The American Biology Teacher 37.9 (1975): 522–527. Web…
Snibbe, Alana Conner, PhD. "Taking the 'vs.' out of Nature vs. Nurture." American Psychological Association. N.p., Nov. 2004. Web. 13 Dec. 2015.