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.

[timeflies51]

As I was reading over the posts, this is what I was thinking: Everyone is saying how it would change who your child really is and among other things. Well, you don't even know who your baby is because that is impossible. Your baby has not developed any specific features that you would want to change and much less a personality. You wouldn't have anything to compare to in the first place, and your baby most certainly won't either, so why not set the genes the way you want them?

But then Pandamonium had a point:

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.

I suppose that after awhile, people would only start to prefer, say, one color of hair and one color of eyes. Perhaps people would eventually feel obliged to make their baby's the same... And then more minorities and discrimination would arise. And of course, that's the last thing we need. That and becoming a bunch of clones. Natural birth gives the world its diversity, and let's keep that.

As for the diseases and disorders, of course I would change it. Yes, if my baby had Down's Syndrome or something similar and I could change it, I'd do it. It would be taking a huge burden off my child, letting him or her live a normal life. You don't think it would be a good thing to not only wipe out conditions such as diabetes, but autism and Down Syndrome, too? I'm not saying to kill the people who have it, but to just prevent them from having it in the first place?