Argumentative Essay: Modified Babies
Rodriguez
Rodriguez, Analia
Mr.I
Chemistry
Argumentative Essay
Modified Babies Essay Our babies have always been a surprise but now you can modify your baby to have all the characteristics that you want them to have. We should not be able to modify our own babies because something can go wrong without them even knowing, and will create a gap in our society. Science has now reached a point where upcoming parents can choose what type of genes their children can be born with and not realizing that it can go terribly wrong.While trying to modify our babies the ending result can create a new illness that might not have a cure for it. According to Sheldon Krimsky “with respect to the farmer, there are safer and more dependable methods for preventing the birth of a child with a severe genetic abnormality than by genetic modification of the germ cell”. Modifying our babies can create an illness that will inquire a cure that won’t be existing but these babies will also create a gap in our society. Everyone will want to modify their babies so they can be their definition of perfect. Since only wealthy people will be able to modify their babies that will cause huge conflicts between the …show more content…
Tia Ghose and Staff Writer said in the article The Ethics Of Designer Babies “Creating designer babies who are free from disease and super athletic or smart may finally be around the corner”. Yes hearing those words makes you think that it should be benefiting us in a way, seeing that the babies would be free from diseases, smart, and athletic but that's wrong because when in the process of trying to eliminate a disease you can create a disease while trying to eliminate one and there wouldn’t be a cure since we're trying to extinguish a disease but instead we have added
Rodriguez, Analia
Mr.I
Chemistry
Argumentative Essay
Modified Babies Essay Our babies have always been a surprise but now you can modify your baby to have all the characteristics that you want them to have. We should not be able to modify our own babies because something can go wrong without them even knowing, and will create a gap in our society. Science has now reached a point where upcoming parents can choose what type of genes their children can be born with and not realizing that it can go terribly wrong.While trying to modify our babies the ending result can create a new illness that might not have a cure for it. According to Sheldon Krimsky “with respect to the farmer, there are safer and more dependable methods for preventing the birth of a child with a severe genetic abnormality than by genetic modification of the germ cell”. Modifying our babies can create an illness that will inquire a cure that won’t be existing but these babies will also create a gap in our society. Everyone will want to modify their babies so they can be their definition of perfect. Since only wealthy people will be able to modify their babies that will cause huge conflicts between the …show more content…
Tia Ghose and Staff Writer said in the article The Ethics Of Designer Babies “Creating designer babies who are free from disease and super athletic or smart may finally be around the corner”. Yes hearing those words makes you think that it should be benefiting us in a way, seeing that the babies would be free from diseases, smart, and athletic but that's wrong because when in the process of trying to eliminate a disease you can create a disease while trying to eliminate one and there wouldn’t be a cure since we're trying to extinguish a disease but instead we have added