What if it was possible for your child to live a life free of genetic diseases? Advanced reproductive technologies are now “allowing both doctors and parents to screen embryos for genetic diseases and select healthy embryos”. (“Design-a-baby”)(1) InVitro Fertilization is a process in which you fertilize eggs with sperm in test tubes – this is done within a laboratory, outside of the mother. Techniques such as these assist in preventing the chance of a child being born with a genetic disease. Furthermore, there are two possible techniques that can be used, the first can be used to determine the sex. On the other hand, the second technique is used to screen embryos for genetic diseases and only those that are selected are implanted back in the mother’s womb - this is known as Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis. For the same reason a large amount of people are concerned whether we “may be able to use genetic technologies to modify embryos and choose desirable or cosmetic characteristics.
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However, when the platform is widened to allow the selection of “aesthetic traits such as eye color and hair about 72% disapprove and view it as unethical. “Bioethicists believe that regulations on designer baby technology should not affect its use to detect and prevent diseases, but prevent it for the use of “promoting a narrow set of socially admired physical or aesthetic traits.”(Lerner)(1) Some worry that these types of modification could be used as new tools to eugenics; the practice of improving genetic quality of the human population. Those who support the technology such as James Hughes who see the “genetic modification of humans as not only a natural progression of our species, but a right in the same category as abortion.” For Hughes, “if you think women have the right to control their bodies, then they should be able to make this
However, when the platform is widened to allow the selection of “aesthetic traits such as eye color and hair about 72% disapprove and view it as unethical. “Bioethicists believe that regulations on designer baby technology should not affect its use to detect and prevent diseases, but prevent it for the use of “promoting a narrow set of socially admired physical or aesthetic traits.”(Lerner)(1) Some worry that these types of modification could be used as new tools to eugenics; the practice of improving genetic quality of the human population. Those who support the technology such as James Hughes who see the “genetic modification of humans as not only a natural progression of our species, but a right in the same category as abortion.” For Hughes, “if you think women have the right to control their bodies, then they should be able to make this