The Pros And Cons Of Genetic Screening

The ability for scientists to use genetic screening in real life is quickly coming to fruition. Genetic screening is the ability for scientists to look into the DNA of a human being and determine the diseases in which the person may later face in their life. Thus, doctors are able to take efforts to cure the diseases before they even happen. However, it is likely that in the not so far future a form of genetic screening will come to be in which scientists are able to test for other traits such as intelligence, endurance, heart problems, and more. The question is, should newborn children be tested for these different traits or should these things be left for chance and odds? While seeing the outcome of what a newborn child will become would
Consequently, people would use this ability to determine whether they would like to keep their baby or abort it based on the findings. Currently abortion is already facing social arguments and fighting, but as this process would become available this abortion process would take place more often causing many innocent deaths. Therefore, population would seize to increase and babies that have possible problems wouldn't even get to see the light of day.thus, the idea of genetic screening is dangerous. In addition, people would begin to use genetic snipping to change the resulting traits and features of their babies. Humans would begin choosing what traits and features they would like their baby to have including speed, musical talent, or even intelligence. Therefore, babies would be born with new traits that were previously seen as unnatural and amazing. This new idea of altered traits and characteristics would result in a new breed of birth in which people can choose their babies. However this idea would cause social, economical, and political
Much like in the movie “GATTACA,” people without these traits would be seen as insufficient to do the job that they please because of certain diseases in which they have a possibility at obtaining. In the movie Vincent Freeman was born the natural way without genetic alterations and is found to have a 99% to contract heart issues. Also, the people in the movie are required to give their employers samples of their DNA and if they have a possibility of contracting certain diseases they become ineligible for some jobs. However, as of now this genetic discrimination is illegal in most of the world, but it is likely that as technology grows and changes this law may be undone allowing employers to judge whether a person is capable to do a job based on their genes (Birchall 1). Thus, the question comes if this technology is possible who should be allowed to have access to it? In the article Genetic Discrimination in the Workplace the author states that according to a survey done by the “National Center of Genome Resources found that nearly two-thirds of respondents would not take genetic tests if employers and health insurers could see the results” (Steven 189). According to this fact the majority of people are against employers and health insurers seeing the results of this test. Likewise, if employers saw a