Immediate Family: Should People Use Their Genetic Information?

As “reading” our genomes becomes more available, I think each person should have complete privacy over their genetic information. It’s their personal information, and it’s their right to share it if they’d like, but no one else besides immediate family should have the right to use their genetic information. Immediate family should be allowed rights too, because it could be helpful in making important decisions or in emergencies. Employers and insurers should absolutely not be able to reject someone based on their genome. That would be purely discrimination, weather it saves them money or not. In the same way that companies can’t reject people with disabilities, they shouldn’t be allowed to reject someone based on the chance they could get an illness.
If parents were allowed to genetically alter their unborn children so that they could have whatever physical and mental characteristics they wanted then eventually we’d have an entire population of children with “desired” qualities without any diversity whatsoever. Parents should not be allowed to alter their unborn child’s characteristics because among other issues, …show more content…
In the same way, allowing farming companies to use technology to create animals that are “easier” to raise and kill for food would be cruel, because again the animals’ only purpose for living would be to provide food for humans. Likewise, creating animals that only live to produce drugs for humans would be taking advantage of animals and treating them as if they were factories. Finally, although it is creative, controlling animals for the use of surveillance and as weapons is also unethical in the same way as using humans as suicide bombers would be. It’d be taking the value of their life for granted, and acting as though all animals are