Question

Write a response commenting on their report and asking a question about the report, including questions about the scientists who performed the research and the organisms under discussion. Please make sure to answer all questions in reply to your report in detail.

1st comment

A brief summary of the ethical concerns surrounding this topic.

Designer babies is the idea of creating babies with disease free and super authentic or smart by using technology to manipulate genetic. In fact, parents can choose to screen embryos created via in vitro fertilization (IVF) for sex or diseases, a process known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. It’s reported recently about a method of extracting defective mitochondria, the energy powerhouses of cells, from a woman's egg and replacing them with healthy mitochondria from a donor egg. With new tests, scientist can detect fetal DNA circulating in a woman's blood stream early on in pregnancy, determining sex or catching errors in the number of chromosomes which cause Down syndrome. However, scientists still hesitate to adapt this technique into the reality, especially with sex selection since it can cause a huge problem in sex discrimination against women in society. Additionally, giving parents the ability to choose and control genetic traits of their F1 could potentially affect the bond between the parents and their descendants. According to Murray, he states "one of my concerns is if we let parents think they are actually choosing and controlling [their child's outcome], then we set up all that dynamic of potentially tyrannical expectations over what the child will do or be.”

2. Your own well-supported personal viewpoint on this issue and how you would defend your viewpoint to a person who disagrees with you

Although I like the idea of preventing babies from any type of diseases before they are even born, I disagree with the concept of choosing genetic traits. I think the whole process should be natural and ordinary. We can create babies but we should not control them. We give them lives but we can force them how to live it. This type of manipulations should not be supported because it can lead to other major problems. In fact, in many Asian countries, societies value boys more than girls that leads to sex discrimination against women. Also, this is a very expensive process, so not all of families can afford the technology cost. The most accurate sex-selection methods are the most expensive (tens of thousands of dollars) and often mean you have to undergo invasive infertility treatments and take fertility drugs with potential side effects. As the result, there would be racist among the kids who are chosen better traits than others. There are so many reasons to convince me that the term of designer babies is not human being. We should not hinder the natural process of variation.

2nd comment

Giving parents the ability to select genetic traits for their offspring could damage the relationship they could have with their kids because of the predetermined notions of what they wanna be or who they should be through the DNA selection. Also by choosing and controlling the child's outcome then we set up the dynamic of potentially tyrannical expectations over what the child will do or be.

The ethical concerns would be the damage done to the children by forcing the individual into a predetermined life but deciding his or her Abilities or Mental Capacity... All things that come naturally and almost picked at random would now be like taking your kid to build a bear and deciding what you want from hair to height to every.

I don't think to make sure a child a healthy and removing certain disease traits that get passed down from the child are bad but the damage done to the parent-child relationship could be. Even in today's Era parents have to hate or disdain for their kids for not being what they want. A kid having a different outlook after being biologically altered to fit his or her parent's needs and still deciding to be something else in life could destroy the relationship beyond repair.

Answer 1

The first question that arises in my mind what is the need of introduction of this kind of technology because the child born in such circumstances are subjected to mental pressure and discrimination . This kind of technology would bring disparity in the society . The scientist can introduce this technology but they will bring inequality among the population . Some questions arises in my mind are -

Who will took control over the use of this technology ?

parents / Government / Doctors / scientists .

Who would be benefited?

Rich or poor .

Who can afford this?

Who will be the policy makers of this use of technology ?

Is it increases immense pressure on the generation to be perfect in every field ?

Does it divide the population into superior and inferior groups ?

The society and population works together and is divided into many groups . So what happen if all the individuals have all the good traits and every one deny to do lower jobs and asks for good opportunity? How this society would work?

What happen if parents only want a boy child ?

Hence,apart from benefit there are much more side effects of this technology which will create challenges ,problems , a sensece of inequality ,and mental issues among the population . Technology is used to assist individuals not to create havoc among the population .