genetic traits will become available. People will have the power to engineer their children to be smarter‚ stronger‚ taller‚ and even predetermine the gender. This technology is referred to as Eugenics‚ but the products are commonly called designer babies. Although this technology isn’t entirely available it is causing quite the debates. Which leads many people to think: what are the pros and cons to genetic engineering? According to Stephen Baird‚ “Some will curse these new technologies‚ sounding
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Designer Babies Thousands of couples take their children to build-a-bear workshops every year to build and design a perfect teddy bear but the fact that there are also “build-a-baby” workshops is preposterous! Thousands of couples from around the world are using new reproductive technology not to procreate or save a baby’s life but to build a “perfect baby” and in the process they end up killing many babies. There have been more than 4000 cases of successful gender selected babies due to new technology
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“designer babies”. I don’t think it is ethical at all to use this process as a way for parents to make a baby that would perceive as “perfect”. Babies should be born naturally and parents should love their children under all circumstances. The only circumstance that should allow parents to have the right of gene sequencing would be if there was a harmful chromosomal disease that was definitely going to be passed down to the parent’s offspring. As one of the mothers said in the show “Designer Babies”‚ “I
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in this matter. First of all‚ the female is wrong because she is the one who born the baby and abandon him or her. The girl has to make decision alone‚ and they do not have anyone to turn to and the man by then is not there anymore. To them‚ it is their fault because they are pregnant. The man does not want to get married with them. Men irresponsibility also contributes to the women’s decision to dumped their baby because he did not want the child. So it’s not fair to blame baby’s mother only
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Akira Powell Adv. Eng. 11 10/04/2013 The History of The Cherokee Indians Cherokee comes from the creek word "Ciló-kki" with the meaning of “people of a different speech”. The Bureau of Indian Tribes has the largest database of records and histories of Native American tribes within the country. The Cherokee Indian speaks the language of Iroquian. Many believe that the Cherokee Indians were one of the largest tribes to settle in the Southeast American portion of the country. The tribe came
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Designer Babies Parents can now pick a kid’s sex and screen for genetic illness. Will they someday select brains and beauty too? In the ever- advancing technological world‚ scientists discover new and efficient ways to advance society each and every single day. Imagine being able to choose your child’s body type‚ or personality‚ or IQ. It is not as farfetched as it sounds. It’s a process called "Gene Therapy"‚ and is being perfected right now. This process rules out any unknown’s in childbirth
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New Baby The day my niece‚ Hailey‚ was born was probably the most exciting day of my life. Being nine years old‚ the youngest of four‚ and knowing my mom wasn’t going to have any more kids I felt as if I was gaining a sister instead of a niece. I had been continuously asking my mom for a baby sister and the answer I received was always a no. It was a Sunday afternoon when my sister decided to sit the whole family down and make her big announcement. We could all tell she was nervous to say whatever
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Argumentative research essay : IVF “test tube babies” A first child is your own best foot forward‚ and how you do cheer those little feet as they strike out. You examine every turn of flesh for precocity‚ and crow it to the world. But the last one: the baby who trails her scent like a flag of surrender through your life when there will be no more coming after--oh‚ that ’ s love by a different name(Kingsolver) I read this quote and I couldn’t not have it at the start of this essay. No one
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The abandoned of babies issue is a social disease of our society that lack of humanity values. This problem should not happen in our country which is opposite from our cultural and religious values. Abandonment cases are viewed as a social disease that will shackle our country from being a caring society as the fourth of the nine of Vision 2020 challenge to establishing a fully moral and ethical society‚ whose citizens are strong in religious and spiritual values and imbued with the highest of ethical
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A new medical practice for premature babies -Touching or No Touching- In the world‚ more than 300 thousand people are born in a day‚ but 10 percent of them are born as premature babies. The premature birth rate has increased by about 36 percent since the early 1980s‚ and many of them have died. Fortunately the good news is that the survival rate of the preterm has increased remarkably due to improvements in neonatology‚ such as using incubator transport. However‚ compared with in utero
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