Design your own baby! Options

[marzipan]

I've heard about technology now where you can change the genes of a baby still in the womb of a pregnant woman to make it what you want it to look like. That seems kind of weird to me. Some might find it morally wrong because God created us all how he wanted us.

But then again, if you found out that your baby had a certain disorder or disease, wouldn't you want to fix that?

Do you find this right or wrong?

[pandamonium]

You guys arent being realistic.

I see where you are all coming from but what happens when this actually occurs, you get to choose from the parents which traits he/she can or cant have but are you going to leave his autism alone, are you gonig to let him/her be blind deaf and mute.

"I want her to have green eyes and black hair, but leave her with diabetes, i dont want to alter her."

In the future i think this will be an option, but its either stick with the baby you have or change everything about your baby. Once everyone has green blue eyes and blonde hair, the special ones are the minorities, the ones with freckles, that have sicknesses.

[orgasm]

You guys arent being realistic.

I see where you are all coming from but what happens when this actually occurs, you get to choose from the parents which traits he/she can or cant have but are you going to leave his autism alone, are you gonig to let him/her be blind deaf and mute.

"I want her to have green eyes and black hair, but leave her with diabetes, i dont want to alter her."

In the future i think this will be an option, but its either stick with the baby you have or change everything about your baby. Once everyone has green blue eyes and blonde hair, the special ones are the minorities, the ones with freckles, that have sicknesses.

Um. Wtf are you even talking about? I read the posts and most people are saying that the choice to alter babies would be great if it could prevent diseases... how is that not being realistic?

What's eventually going to happen is that science will find a way to alter genetic disorders that are passed down through the chromosome pairings that contain the nucleic acid sequencing. Or something to that effect. I wasn't really paying all that much attention in BioTech today. Anyways... they'll be able to trace the disorders, change them, whatever, and there will be a big hype because voila! Science cures genetic horrors!

But as always, whatever can be applied to sicknesses can be applied cosmetically to perfectly normal people, and sooner or later, the rich people in Hollywood will be interested in making their ideal child. The thing is, there's really not that much you can do... You can't take a child from two brown-eyed parents and change the DNA around to make her have blue eyes. There's a limit to what science can do.

Granted, this will be in the very FAR future and even then, procedures will probably be incredibly expensive and regular people like us will call those rich people idiots and there'll be protests and blah blah blah.

Personally, I don't think you should mess with nature. I mean if a kid's born with Down Syndrome, that's really sad, but that's the way it was meant to be... he or she shouldn't be any less loved because of it. It might be just me but I view so-called "defects" as obstacles to climb. Society's not meant to be filled with perfectly created people, no matter how hard we strive for it. I guess with me, altering the genes of an embryo crosses that ethical line of what you can and can't mess with.

But seriously? None of us are going to be around whenever scientists figure out how to do this. Human genome = very f**king complicated.

Or something to that effect.