The rise of Realism
Kayla Trimarco
May 1, 2013
Mrs. Thompson
Argumentative Essay
The Perfect Child Should creating the “perfect” child be considered moral or immoral? The creation of designer babies has been an issue since about 2008 when human cloning became acceptable to scientists and was considered an advancement in technology with no concerns about human evolution, genetics, or how cloning could potentially change these things forever. Designer babies propose both moral problems and solutions for the medical world. These are babies whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics. People that are willing to pay $10,000 or more to create what they consider their perfect child can choose the gender, color of the eyes, characteristics of the child, and intelligence. Parents can go as far as choosing the genes that the child gets, whether the child is going to be healthy, crippled, or live with a debilitating disease. Many of the choices that these parents have are what causes the moral problems because most people believe that it is just wrong to be able to cripple a child, especially when they did not even get the chance to not be crippled. Others believe that it is acceptable to intentionally cripple a child if the parents are both crippled, or if they are both blind, so it could potentially make living easier for the whole family. Some are enraged that creating designer babies is legal in countries, and some are exuberant that they are legal. Creating a designer baby is immoral and should be illegal globally. However, many people argue that the legalization in all states of designer babies will even out the ratio of boys to girls in the world. It will not even the ratio of boys to girls; it depends on many factors. One of those factors includes what the children of the family already are: a boy or girl and if they want another of
May 1, 2013
Mrs. Thompson
Argumentative Essay
The Perfect Child Should creating the “perfect” child be considered moral or immoral? The creation of designer babies has been an issue since about 2008 when human cloning became acceptable to scientists and was considered an advancement in technology with no concerns about human evolution, genetics, or how cloning could potentially change these things forever. Designer babies propose both moral problems and solutions for the medical world. These are babies whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilization to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics. People that are willing to pay $10,000 or more to create what they consider their perfect child can choose the gender, color of the eyes, characteristics of the child, and intelligence. Parents can go as far as choosing the genes that the child gets, whether the child is going to be healthy, crippled, or live with a debilitating disease. Many of the choices that these parents have are what causes the moral problems because most people believe that it is just wrong to be able to cripple a child, especially when they did not even get the chance to not be crippled. Others believe that it is acceptable to intentionally cripple a child if the parents are both crippled, or if they are both blind, so it could potentially make living easier for the whole family. Some are enraged that creating designer babies is legal in countries, and some are exuberant that they are legal. Creating a designer baby is immoral and should be illegal globally. However, many people argue that the legalization in all states of designer babies will even out the ratio of boys to girls in the world. It will not even the ratio of boys to girls; it depends on many factors. One of those factors includes what the children of the family already are: a boy or girl and if they want another of