Ethics Committee Report 2

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) involves the testing of numerous embryos, not just one. After all of the embryos have gone through screening and received a diagnosis, the parents choose one embryo to implant and the others are usually discarded. PGD is a process of selection, not prevention. In other words, PGD is not the prevention of a single embryo from having a disability; it is the selection of an embryo without one. In this paper I will argue that PGD is morally wrong. Many families suffer from different genetic diseases and carry the trait, which can cause their child to have the disease. I understand that parents’ do not want to take on the responsibility of dealing with a child that is sick and could possibly die. But that does not give you the reason to choose how your baby should be.
I do feel that PGD is morally wrong because a special baby is giving to special people. No one should be able to choose how their baby will be in the future, that decision is left up to God who has sent the child to you. Choosing the embryo you want is not right because humans have value and worth. They require to be respected. Each person deserves to be respected for his/her integral being, no matter who they are. While PGD is performed on fetuses, its use is still unjustified because fetuses could-be a person and therefore, require the same amount of respect as any other person. Furthermore, the use of PGD is creating what they want and not what God wants for their child.
Another reason the technology behind PGD is wrong because it would allow parents to select specific and nonessential traits, such as eye color, height, and athletic ability, even intelligence that they want their child to express and why can’t they just let that happen naturally. They should just wait to see what their child looks like once they enter the world. This technology is the same as the Build-a-Bear Workshop, but for grown-ups. I just don’t understand why a person would want to do