PERIOD+1+DESIGNER+BABIES

= =
 * Designer Babies **

=//**Designer Baby Game: **//= []

=//**Webpages: **//=

===In modern day society scientists have now introduced a new project where parents can now design their own babies. This is done by a questionnaire, taken by the parents. Scientists screen the embryos via in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the sex of their child and for diseases. This process is called preimplantation genetic diagnosis.===

===When you design your own baby scientists remove all genes from both the egg and the sperm and they implant new genes. With this occurring scientists have now realized when they remove the gene they are removing all diseases. For example; Cancer. Thomas H. Murray who is an article author said, “We're on the cusp of having much more information, and the appearance of having much greater discretion, in choosing the traits of our children”. Others would believe that there’s nothing unique about this process. “Parents are just trying to foster certain traits through genetics. However, others would say, "I don't think there's anything wrong with the attempt to make our children smarter or kinder” and scientists would agree with the last statement. As Steinbock (scientist) said "If we did think that was wrong, we should give up parenting, and put them out on the street."===

[]
 [] []

= =  =//News Articles: //= Designer babies involves testing a cell taken from a very early staged embryo before it is put into the mother’s womb. Then Doctors select an embryo from the mother that resembles the traits that the parents want like an embryo with the traits of blonde hair and blue eyes. [] "We're on the cusp of having much more information, and the appearance of having much greater discretion, in choosing the traits of our children," said article author Thomas H. Murray. Scientist are getting more and more information about making babies and what the effects are too the child. [] "I would predict that by next year, we will have determined sex with 100 percent certainty on a baby, and we will have determined eye color with about an 80 percent accuracy rate," said fertility specialist Dr. Jeff Steinberg. This will give the parents more options if they do choose to designer there own baby. []

 []

=// Blog Post: //=

 [|__http://bleedinghear] [|tlibertarians.com/2013/10/designer-babies/__]  This website talks about how in other countries most people prefer male to female babies; which can create many different problems. It also talks about how only the rich will be able to afford it because of how much it costs have a baby. Wealthier people would try to make their baby as perfect as they can by making sure they are smart, have good traits and are healthy. [|__http://theconversation.com/where-should-we-draw-the-line-on-designer-babies-9647__] This website talks about where we should draw the line when it comes to making ou r designer babies. It also talks about how in China there are six million kids undocumented and what we can learn from that. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> [|__http://www.debate.org/opinions/should-there-be-designer-babies__] On this website people are posting their views on having designer babies. Most people said no because it’s not natural, and our society will implode. They also said babies are not bags, meaning that we don't get to pick what are baby can look like. People who said yes to designer babies said that having the perfect baby would be great, because the baby would be healthy and free from any disease. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> [] =//**<span style="color: #efe961; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 25px;">Corresponding Criticism: **//=

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Pros:__ This system would definitely bring some very helpful changes. The idea of being able to enter an embryo's DNA safely and change a sequence could potentially save a child from a life-threatening inherited disease. There is a very diverse debate between whether choosing traits of your child is a positive or negative thing. On the positive side of it, we will be able to create the ideal child for ourselves. We will be able to rule out any possible signs of mental disorders like depression, anxiety, or ADHD. <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-prevent potentially dangerous diseases <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-eliminate mental illnesses <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-eliminate all negative traits <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">-create a perfect genome

<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">__Cons:__ Most people think of picking and choosing traits of their unborn child as a very positive, innovative idea. Who wouldn’t want to create the perfect child? Unfortunately many overlook the negatives and consequences of it. For example, when we begin to create a faultless genotype, we will begin to only use the system to get the physical traits we want. Some say that's a good thing, but some say choosing traits of you baby is completely wrong. The system of creating a perfect child will ruin the morals of people. Of course preventing diseases is always a great big help, but what happens when we create a population so perfect and healthy that nobody dies? Overpopulation, would occur and there would be a limit on how many children you could have, which would obviously cause a huge problem within the people. We would have to worry about the carrying capacity, and if we could even survive with the limit of supplies we would have. Too many babies would be surviving and rarely dying, which sounds good, but is it really? Another con is that the prices of the process would create a diversity between rich and poor people. America is always trying to create balance within the country, but when the rich people can only afford to do this what will the poor people think? <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-negatively affect human morals <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-overpopulation  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-reach carrying capacity  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-diversity between rich and poor  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-who would own the equipment  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-would we share our equipment with other countries  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"><span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">-create controverse  <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">

[|http://designerbabies.weebly.com/cons.html]
<span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;"> =<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">//** Videos: **// = <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">media type="youtube" key="1sspJ3QNtcY" width="560" height="315" <span style="display: block; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; text-align: left;">A brief video on the cons of 'designing your baby'.