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Essay / Designer Babies - 1938
Designer BabiesI have been pushed and pushed since I can remember, but what I didn't know was that I was actually a pushed and pushed individual before I even existed . It was thanks to the transplanted DNA that they should have called me instead of Wang. I find that my existence is not as real or as desired as that of others who were conceived naturally with loving parents and even the idea of other loving parents adopting their children. It just seems unfair that my parents were making decisions for me before I was even born. The idea that anyone would want to create their child is absurd. Our body's own process of getting rid of bad genes is something we cannot control. We cannot begin to have the same instinct as our body. Allowing this to continue could jeopardize an individual's identity and uniqueness, as well as the extent to which parents make too many decisions. This process will also affect the "conceived baby" emotionally, as the child may feel that he is not real in the sense that he was created for selfish purposes. Changing the genetics of an embryo affects the child physically and emotionally. In addition to affecting society as a whole in the long term, designer babies, a term used by journalists, are described as "advanced reproductive technologies that allow parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic disorders and to select healthy embryos” (Bionet). There are three ways to use this “baby design”. “The simplest method of creating a child is human cloning: taking a cell from an adult and combining it with a human egg to create an identical clone of the adult. This is the ultimate purebred child with guaranteed genes. […] Another, more difficult way to create designer people, or a super race, is to take sperm, eggs, or cells from a developing embryo, and add new genes to them. This is called germ cell damage. […] A third way is to modify cells after birth. This is called somatic cell damage. Here, the effects will disappear when the person dies and will not be passed on to a second generation of designer babies” (Dixon). Parents make decisions for their children before they are even born. The unborn fetus is not able to shape its own identity because its physical characteristics have been indirectly chosen for it. The child is artificial and unnatural. A scientific experiment carried out wrongly, hoping to create a conscious idea of...... middle of paper...... that destiny can only be made possible by modifying the traits that nature has wanted us to inherit. This highlights misconceptions in people's opinions about what is acceptable. When in reality everyone is different and that is what gives a person an identity and if we all looked the same it would be a world of chaos and if you are not rich enough you are put aside as the “ugly duckling”. ". Once we are able to genetically change our child, the imperfect will no longer be accepted in a society of a “super human race” composed of intelligent, flawless and disease-free people. /Content/db_cont1.htm “Advanced reproductive technologies allow parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic disorders and select healthy embryos. » -definition2http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DD57.htmDebate on “designer babies”Personal reproductive choices should not be subject to legal regulation. by.