Positive And Negative Effects Of Eugenics

The world is constantly changing and evolving. Humans have played a large role in these changes. We have come far since the time of man creating the wheel. One of the areas that humans have improved on the some of the years is medical technology. The life expectancy for the average human being is now eighty years old compared to back in the day where someone would be lucky if they made it to their mid thirties. Medical advancements have done more than just help humans live longer. In today society we can create a human life outside of body. The term that is commonly used for chis medical advancement is test tube babies. The egg and the sperm come together to create life, which happens inside a petri dish. The eggs are usually fertilized and
Eugenics is defined as the manipulating of reproductive processes to produce a specific outcome (Class discussion). There are type types of eugenics, negative and positive. With negative eugenics the technology is used to prevent a genetic flaw (Class discussion). An example of this would be altering a fetus’ gene to make sure the child does not have diabetes even though it runs in the family. Positive eugenics, on the other hand, would be using the technology to create a child that has specific treats or features desired by the parents (Class discussion). Another term for this would be a designer baby. There are many different ways to look at eugenics. In the end all of the questions that can be asked about eugenics and altering genes comes down to whether or not eugenics is ethical. If something is ethical then it is relating to moral principles of knowledge dealing a specific situation. Every situation is different when it comes to the medical field. There are no two patients that will be the same and this also goes for different situations regarding eugenics. There are some situations where eugenics should be used to improve the life of the child and there are some situations were the use of eugenics is uncalled for in children. Test tube babies and altering the genes of a fetus should only be used to improve the medical life of the
Even the Roman Catholic Church believes that AIH is an expectable form of creating a child as long as it is not a substitute for the sexual intercourse (Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith 1989). The church only agrees with AIH and not AID. This is where my opinion differs from the church. As a practicing Lutheran there are aspects of the practices of the Roman Catholic Church that I disagree with. This is a perfect example; I would say that either type of artificial insemination is an expectable from of creating a child as long as all parties involved consent for the process to be done. Personally if I were to be artificially inseminated in order to create a child I would want the sperm used to be from my husband, but I believe that every women should have the right to have a baby even if she in not married. Artificial insemination is, in my opinion, a safer and smarter way to have a child then hooking up with a guy in order to get pregnant. There is less of a chance of getting an STD if artificial insemination is used and all artificial inseminations have to be approved by both the women who wants the child and the man whose sperm is bing