Designer Babies

DESIGNER BABIES

The Do-it-yourself Style

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Introduction

Good morning , Ma 'am . May I take your

Good morning . Let me have a tall offspring with extreme passion for music and an IQ of 165 . By the way , make it female

Is that all Ma 'am

This conversation might fill the air in the future as genetic engineering makes it possible for parents to deliberately choose the traits that they want their kids to have . The personalized offspring produced through genetic intervention into pre-implantation embryos are called designer babies (Hayes

, 2000 . Some people might find this science breakthrough a blessing some may perceive it as a curse . Aside from having social , ethical and medical implications , the anticipated popularity of designer babies is actually nothing more than a manifestation of parents ' control over their children even before they were born

Designer babies allow human beings to transcend their own limitation

Genetic engineering is the process of artificially manipulating these inheritable characteristics (Baird , 2007 ,

. 12 . Scientists specializing in genetic engineering may , in the near future , give parents an opportunity to alter genes that they pass on to their children by adding or deleting certain genes in a cell nucleus (Baird 2007 ,

. 12 Schaeffer , 1999 . Gene modification can either be in the form of somatic therapy or of germ line intervention . Somatic therapy affects only the specific individual while germ line modification can have impact even on the descendants of the specific person (Schaeffer 1999

Basic knowledge on science explains that

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