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Design-A-Baby @ Monday, January 17, 2011

My first question was what is a designer baby? My first thought was maybe parents dressing up their kids in all these different brands. As I research I found out what they are. My first reaction is that this is such a messed up situation. The parents get to choose what their kids can look like just as they were dolls, choosing their hair, eye colour and their gender and even how intelligent they are. I thought that was pretty crazy.

There are advanced reproductive technologies that allow doctors and parents to see the embryos. Many techniques could be involved with this process, InVitro Fertillsation (IVF) and Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD). How they would check the child to see if they have a genetic disorder would to fertilize eggs with sperm in a “test-tubes’ outside the mother’s body in a laboratory. That would be using the InVitro Fertillisation techniques. It is only legally possible to carry out two types of advanced reproductive technologies. One is choosing the type of sperm that will be fertilise and egg. This will determine which gender and genes the baby will have. The second would be involving Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis where they screen embryos for a genetic disease, they would choose the embryos that would return to the mother’s womb.

This is what I see designer baby as. Just like Mr. Potato Head, they get to choose what facial items they want.

As watching videos and reading article, Dr. Steinberg, who is the Director at the Fertility Institutes is known for gender selection. He had said that he performs about ten gender selection fertilization every week, for $18,400 fee. Those ten parents would have to be rich to afford this. If this continues, the world would just be a competition to perfection. As the rich family will have the “perfect” children as the “normal” children, would not have an image that they wanted.

While reading all these information I would be shaking my head and asking why? Why would you go through with this? I believe that this is wrong, for the fact that this is not how it is suppose to be like. In the religion view, God has made us with his image and people would just want to change it, just like that. I feel like it is just greedy because they should be happy to what child they have. It wouldn’t matter to what gender they are, what eye and hair colour they have and how tall they are. Not only do these parents care about their child appearance, they want them to have different abilities, like how athletic and intelligent they are. This should be earned not given. People, who live in this society now, had earned the intelligent by working hard and going to school. Even with athleticism, people work hard to do well in the sports and activity that they do.

REFRENCE:
http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/db_cont1.htm
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,989987,00.html
http://singularityhub.com/2009/02/25/designer-babies-like-it-or-not-here-they-come/

COMMENTS:
BRIDGETTE
http://bridgettebioblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/is-there-such-thing-as-flawless-baby.html?showComment=1295288129236_AIe9_BG1MCyWWxSFFwTBHBp0bzOyCHCi-fU7Qaw0ggikTTYScCES1He5F7bdZRBTVBkFNlWGbruPliPh344t0SDXDEgn_3wLEbcKdXQI6e0xcXai0F07x8ycF37J5PSZ-UfoZ-tL1w95wvHH41ipQ-pZ_nRLj_EZNySDEZ_D075VJGE0xXUJr6uZz3hmIFuvkMenMmML1EypunyrIte2TvNtkX42qvAsl3zZDPpMzpsBXXqgyLoHgwHEMB4cJuDB9OArnhMBB8deKJlIyZycjCvCrn4IAHR4G33zviJkTjs0XiMEj2Zq0HTM8k_VQDgzkjwdAQgL6HNOc6gpLx9_bBvZvsV0Qcep8yGxYejFaAk8SNTzXvsKuzGza4M4BkezT1Jh5htrqcB6WUIuwfc4Q6eWLxd2fk9A9zIjQ8hiagxASqretYMKrGUFja7Of5wABVd64tkVZ1IgleKdRAASpft28ckZpT92Osw8X57QPbKGx-UPwCUq-CpgLWpkyMgy6S6t8t2prhNxw7GeAeTRIH9LP9Au1-B-8hFn8gHGja8OZPLCmorp-nioqnmya1NSOKqFTL4GmQQIvNRt9DuEQGVReSdYN-QrIrUor0zxX36fDQX3lWue70c-Uapl1Sq9MpRWe2TFchNU_lsOjMHEGZuCEfewjGxMHw#c1006910531454948783

MEL
http://catnippp.blogspot.com/2010/11/would-you-like-girl-or-boy-do-you-want.html?showComment=1295361391105_AIe9_BHo3bFJoX32gYBPLWYZ9JjslgdE5Qm0Wk3Ei2Fr2JdPbgGxrqo_-BRf8p_zslCJkBDXt_kg4aThI8yMts7ZnsVVIAsD0lKlpVHJvFW0MMuPgHqM0exIOHXuoSHED4qiTrJqzcagEE6wtr8699ZtXBZzGakMRWq-5J4mhfld_IJPyjeFI00eOhJIzfZ8XwYUDwDggA4jFd3lIjCKZ8gh0T3NzA8Gug5Z-HuuY-qgYaMZNyusPrnsYIfXkWUfzmbuTxwipnSLl7tYoOULx9_m3vPDr7n7ho-37Ebd_SRN_io3kWbXD9an9yCwq0W4LCGcd1o5g-A0Dp5owtUublFI9wsoyJLwj4b6Vu5mFha4601D11-vTD1PPioc2v_n-2N797D1hvKtpuhWhTMVJIRhPJDCdiS03rfcT4V3SqtwDmzXJWbfAXsHq0eimgoTKROHBp9Ehwg4XgqUvwvwyiJqDmbARVITa9zyUDS0vWgjZIRqUVIwW4iOgRvvYHjXojRUFbzMy_wHWEYL-whe7VLUFWvEt385eZtYaYrhTF9S6vlzo3DZUsKqDxY-IgPUTpxPbsOYoRX2Bd0iZXWpWEsKGWb1qUcF72t-_GPUkL1O1QhHhr-aXjrRVNsdK7Suvs66kA7OfOkjWJ9MzFzZr1W9bQhfFAI4Yg#c4039267031348913042

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