Parents should fundamentally have the right to decide whether they want to have a genetically unfit baby or not . They should have the right to modify the genes of the embryo . This would ensure that the baby leads a healthy and potentially content life thereby allowing the parents to focus on the proper nurturing of the baby . However , parents do not have the right to decide for the child what physical characteristics the child should possess . It is a decision...

By giving a proof that criminal has an "anti-social " gene , may help the lawyers to protect hard-core death row prisoners . Some critics also say that this may increase prejudice against each other , which can repeat the events of 1930 , whereby , a contest was held across the United States to find ``Fitter Families ' especially for Caucasians . The sterilization laws were enacted so that undesirable babies could not be reproduced . The main objection to the "designer baby " technology lies in the use...

The new born baby will then be free of any chances on manifesting that disease . A concrete example can be seen in the case of the sickle-cell anemia . This happens when a mutation occurs in the genetic code for the hemoglobin , an important component in our blood . Instead of the gene coding for the amino acid glutamine , an abnormal hemoglobin gene codes for valine . This results to a deformity in the hemoglobin 's structure and causes the sickle-cell anemia disease...

For one , the PGD technique to control the future intelligence , attractiveness and sexuality of one 's children could be misused by individuals who may use such genetic modification to suit their own doubtful purposes . Secondly , experts believe that this kind of interference may cause inadvertent dangers to the human gene pool . Thirdly , these techniques would offer an unfair advantage to those individuals , who are able to afford the high costs involved , leaving those people who find that they are unable...