Thursday, March 5, 2009

"Designer Babies"

This topic is almost disturbing to me and hits very close to home. I have an uncle who is mentally retarded and through him I have learned compassion, patience, and acceptance. I feel that it is peoples imperfections that tend to out shine their perfect characteristics making each individual unique. Although I think it would be good to know whether or not your child has a certain disease or abnormality before they are born many of us need to stop and think, would you really love them any less? I am not saying I would want to bring an unhealthy baby into the world just to make them suffer; but for my own religious belief's I would not terminate the baby. Not to mention there is always a chance that the genetic tests could be flawed and you could possibly terminate an embryo that is perfectly healthy. As far as creating the "perfect" child through genetically altering the genes I think it is absolutely ridiculous honestly it makes me think of the book "A Brave New World" are we trying to create a Utopian society? I know this is a science class and I am absolutely in awe of what scientists are able to do, but I think this is a little much and is definitely pushing the limit. If you would like to read about the "designer babies" I have listed a link below:
http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/10/30/designer.babies/index.html

1 comment:

  1. The article you posted had some really interesting things in it. I never really thought about how designer babies could alter the human species forever.

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