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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happened recently make me thinking….?? Our country‚ Malaysia has become the most favorite spot for dumping babies. The year 2010 is also known as Baby Dumping cases for Malaysia which brings a lot of questions and issues. Baby dumping is a social crisis and has a chronic increase as many cases are occurring in Malaysia country. We have heard about fruit season‚ fever season but this is the first baby dumping season in Malaysia. New Year celebration and Valentine’s Day known as ‘mating season’ nowadays
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14 Baby Peter Connely (Baby P) Peter connelly died aged 17 months in August 2007 at home in Haringey‚ north london after months of abuse. Peter suffered more than 50 injuries and had been visited 60 times by the authorities in the space of eight months before his death. There was lack of communication between the social workers‚doctors‚ police and everyone else involved in the case‚ they were clearly not working together which eventually lead to the death of Baby P.Everyone involved in baby p’s
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Care for Babies CHCCN5C Element 1: Respond to babies/infant cues and needs Cues and needs Infants cues and needs are met by the way we respond to them in their first two years of life‚ which can influence their ability to form trusting relationships for the rest of their life In Pairs discuss possible cues and needs and their meaning……. Familiar infant cues Cue Gurgling Laughing Pointing Possible Meaning Content Happy Needing/wanting something Fidgeting Grizzling Smiling Sobbing Crying
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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”. 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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CHILD is a priceless gift from Allah SWT. However‚ baby dumping is a social crisis and has a chronic increase as many cases are occurring in Malaysian society. The baby dumping refers to discarding or leaving alone‚ for an extended period of time‚ a child younger than 12 months of age in a public or private setting with the intent to dispose of the child. Based on Bukit Aman Police Headquarters statistics found a total of 580 babies were found dumped between year 2000 to 2006. This number of cases
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character in the story‚ and his wife Desiree is the female individual. Desiree loved her husband and would obey his command regardless of whether she would be hurt. After the birth of her baby‚ Desiree’s husband came to understand that she was not white. The knowledge made him distance himself from Desiree. Therefore‚ when Desiree confronted Madame Valmonde whom she considered her mother about her case she was told to go home. However‚ the story shows that Desiree could not go home without permission
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genes into their fertilized eggs through IVF (in vitro fertilization clinic)‚ and these so-called genetic engineers are able to mutate both internal and external physical traits exactly the way our dear parents desire. Sharon Begley‚ in her “Designer Babies‚” portrays how genetic engineers and scientists have recently come to an issue that would involve our radical opinions of direct manipulation. She acknowledges and addresses both the positive and negative effects of the IVF‚ but appears to ignore
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Red Rock Community College’s adaptation of Christopher Durang’s play Baby with the Bathwater‚ directed by James O’Leary‚ concluded its 8-show run with a sold out finale performance on Sunday April 23rd‚ 2005. When the lights came up on the bassinet in the otherwise darkness of the stage‚ the image more or less stands for everything that follows childhood‚ loneliness and abandonment. It seems that an icon of the entire human experience‚ not just the implied infancy‚ is being presented. When
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