Designer Babies Persuasive Speech
In the novel “The Giver”, the author shows of a world with all people equal. Everyone had brown eyes, brown hair, and light skin. This story takes place far in the future, when the leaders of the world choose that equality and safety will force the world into utopia. However, this world is no utopia. Genetic scientists create people to have no feelings and to look all the same. Imagine a life with no feelings, everyone looking the same, going through the same exact routine everyday, not even being able to see color! This is just one of the scary realities that can occur if the USA allows “Designer Babies” to be processed. With two main points I will prove to you that legalizing “Designer Babies” is the beginning of our end.
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like to bust a quick myth that a lot of people really just don’t know; "The only thing you can reliably design is the sex of your baby — if you are willing to discard embryos of the wrong sex," said Bonnie Steinbock, a biomedical ethics professor at the University of Albany who specializes in reproduction. People believe that you can just go out and choose your baby to your specifications. But that’s not how it works. You would have to be dealing with genes to actually choose things like eye or hair color, but they cant, they can only deal with embryos. The opposition might argue “Imagine being able to choose everything about your child; make them perfect!” but as Bonnie Steinbock said this is not the case. You cannot choose everything about your child only their gender and that too is not as accurate as the media tries to make it seem. Now take this into consideration… Spending hundreds maybe thousands of dollars for a 60-70% chance of getting the gender you want. Sorry but those odds just don’t cut it, at least not in the real world.
My second and final contention is that as I stated briefly before is that “Designer Babies” are the beginning of our end. Think about it… Isn’t this what Hitler wanted? Execute other types of people so only his type would be left. Honestly… Wouldn’t you want your child to be smarter or more athletic? Because I will be honest, I would! But this can easily backfire, because like I said in the novel “The Giver” the genetic scientists began using these powers in a bad way. Things became so bad (I’m not going to ruin the story) that it forced the main character who the genetic scientists mistakenly made him with blonde hair blue eyes (different from the rest of the population) was forced to run away and save himself from the scary world forced upon him. I’d also like to make it a point that like I said this novel is made far in the future and the fact that the genetic scientists still made a mistake creating the protagonist shows how unreliable even in the future this procedure is. Passing the bill to legalize “Designer Babies” will and I guarantee this be the worst mistake in the history of our country. To conclude, id like to tell you this approximately 42 million abortions occur each year worldwide. Choosing to have a boy instead of a girl or vise-versa is no simple matter. As I stated before to choose gender you deal with embryos and the only way to get rid of embryos of the wrong sex is to discard them. Discarding embryos whether you like it or not is a softer way of saying aborting them. I mean really… Are we going to just sit here and allow our kids, the future leaders of this world to be the “guinea pigs” of genetic scientists twisted experiments. Join me to fight and keep genetic scientists away from our children so that we can truly achieve an actual utopia, not the fake one that will be created if this bill is passed.
To start id
like to bust a quick myth that a lot of people really just don’t know; "The only thing you can reliably design is the sex of your baby — if you are willing to discard embryos of the wrong sex," said Bonnie Steinbock, a biomedical ethics professor at the University of Albany who specializes in reproduction. People believe that you can just go out and choose your baby to your specifications. But that’s not how it works. You would have to be dealing with genes to actually choose things like eye or hair color, but they cant, they can only deal with embryos. The opposition might argue “Imagine being able to choose everything about your child; make them perfect!” but as Bonnie Steinbock said this is not the case. You cannot choose everything about your child only their gender and that too is not as accurate as the media tries to make it seem. Now take this into consideration… Spending hundreds maybe thousands of dollars for a 60-70% chance of getting the gender you want. Sorry but those odds just don’t cut it, at least not in the real world.
My second and final contention is that as I stated briefly before is that “Designer Babies” are the beginning of our end. Think about it… Isn’t this what Hitler wanted? Execute other types of people so only his type would be left. Honestly… Wouldn’t you want your child to be smarter or more athletic? Because I will be honest, I would! But this can easily backfire, because like I said in the novel “The Giver” the genetic scientists began using these powers in a bad way. Things became so bad (I’m not going to ruin the story) that it forced the main character who the genetic scientists mistakenly made him with blonde hair blue eyes (different from the rest of the population) was forced to run away and save himself from the scary world forced upon him. I’d also like to make it a point that like I said this novel is made far in the future and the fact that the genetic scientists still made a mistake creating the protagonist shows how unreliable even in the future this procedure is. Passing the bill to legalize “Designer Babies” will and I guarantee this be the worst mistake in the history of our country. To conclude, id like to tell you this approximately 42 million abortions occur each year worldwide. Choosing to have a boy instead of a girl or vise-versa is no simple matter. As I stated before to choose gender you deal with embryos and the only way to get rid of embryos of the wrong sex is to discard them. Discarding embryos whether you like it or not is a softer way of saying aborting them. I mean really… Are we going to just sit here and allow our kids, the future leaders of this world to be the “guinea pigs” of genetic scientists twisted experiments. Join me to fight and keep genetic scientists away from our children so that we can truly achieve an actual utopia, not the fake one that will be created if this bill is passed.