Designing Your Baby!

Ever Wonder about customizing you baby? With modern technology it is now possible. You can now create your baby to look like how you'd like. You are able to choose its sex, and its cosmetic characteristics. Designing your baby will help create your "dream" baby, your perfect baby. But is it really worth it?

Designing your baby is done through the process of InVitro Fertillsation (IVF) and Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). In InVitro Fertillsation eggs are being fertillize with sperm in test-tubes. The egg is taken out of the female. Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) occurs during IVF. This reason for this process is to eliminate the chance of you baby being born with a disorder. In this process, doctors would remove the "bad" dna that creates the disorder from the cell. After these process, IFV and PGD the egg is put back in the womb of the female.

It is amazing how far, we've come with technology. Creating babies our "dream" babies is possible with this technoloy. It's cool how we can avoid our baby from being born with a disorder, and make them look pretty. But having to design your baby comes with social and ethical implications. Firstly it is morally wrong. God had intended humans to mate with one another to create a baby through love and intercourse. He had taught us to love our creation no matter how it looks. Designing your baby changes the way the baby looks, and the changes the way God had wanted it to look. We our messing with God's creations. We aren't creating the baby natuarally anymore. We in a way are losing our humanity. Those parents become greedy, trying to get the best, trying to have the best child. It feels like we are now robots that we can change parts too.  Secondly, these processes are expensive. You have to pay so much for your baby to look pretty. I think the money should go towards the clothes and school. I actually think the clothes the child wears is more important to society nowadays. And school will actually help him become smarter. Implanting a "smart" gene wont teach it anything. It would probably give the baby the ability to learn quicker but still needs to undergo being taught. These processes are expensive, against our morality and not worth it.

Reference : http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/db_cont1.htm
                  http://www.actionbioscience.org/biotech/agar.html
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