Content:

• What are designer babies?
• What are some benefits of designer babies?
• Hemophilia (one of the diseases prevented to pass down)
• What are the limitattions of designer babies?
•   What issues (social, economic, ethical, political or cultural) are currently related to the use of designer babies worldwide? 

What are designer babies?

Source: Ly, Sarah. "The Embryo Project Encyclopedia." Ethics of Designer Babies. N.p., n.d. Web. 08 Oct. 2014. <http://embryo.asu.edu/pages/ethics-designer-babies>

"Designer Babies"is a terminology which roughly translates to controlled reproduction. Enhanced modern reproductive technologies allow parents and doctors to screen embryonic for genetic diseases (gotten by heredity) and select the most healthy embryos. With these processes done,  we can mend genetic disorders that a baby will have (from heridity) and even to manipulate  desirable traits for the unborn baby, thus it is the process of 'creating the baby as the way we prefer them through the manipulation. As perfect as it sounds, it does raise some moral and physical issues as it is still "underdeveloped"

What are the Benefits of designer babies?

As you may tell, designer babies have countless of benefits. Despite this fact, the benefits fall into several general criteria. Designer babies allow parents to give their child a healthy life as it prevents inherited genetic disorders as you can pick out the genetics according to your needs. Genetically engineering babies is an option, not a requirement for all parents as of course some may not agree and it is only vital for picking and depleting genetic disorders. This of course allow parents set their own limits for genetically engineering their baby.With all scientific and technological enhancements in this current world allows both the parents and the doctors to do embryonic screening of which shows the baby. It also prevents the passing of hemophilia of which is a rare bleeding disorder where irregular blood cloting occurs. The disease can be inherited to generations after the descendent. The inheritance of hemophilia can differ according to the kind of hemophilia the carrier has.. If the descendent has the hemophilia type a or b,  The gene that triggers hemophilia is located in the x chromosome thus not allowing father to son inheritance. It most commonly gets inherited to boys and inherited through mother to son inheritance. If the carrier has hemophilia c, they can imherit the disease regardless whether or not they are the father or the mother and it can occur in both gender of children. 
 Source: "THE PROS AND CONS OF "DESIGNER BABIES"" The Ethics of Designer Babies. Wordpress, 28 Apr. 2013. Web. 10 Oct. 2014. 

Limitations of designer babies

Designer babies, like every other innovations that has been innovated in the world has a limitatiopn. Designer babies also has a pros and cons factor like every piece of controversial technology in the world. Even though they can raise a potentially healthy and good-looking generations through the process of designing the babies through selecting the preferred genes, there are several of limitations that the innovation holds (aside the ethical issues). The succes rates of the process used to initiate the process, ivf, does not have a perfect success rate. This can lead to the loss of a child. Furthermore, as designer babies allow parents to pick out the best physical traits of their children, this could lead to an unbelievably uniform society. There would be no ethnicity existing in the world as everyone will look almost uniform. If ethnicity is banished, no variety will exist in the world and delete races in general. 

Source: "'Designer Baby' - pros and cons." Today.Az -. N.p., n.d. Web. 14 Oct. 2014. <http://www.today.az/news/yourcornenr/99530

Ethical issues of Designer babies

Due to the fact that designer babies is still a technology in development, it creates a certain upsetting balance scale in retrospect to the factors apparent in the world. As stated before, the process of designer babies allows parents to choose their preffered traits of their child. This can be seen as a double edged sword as in one side, it is a positive aspect for a couple and in the other side it is a quite negative  aspect. Designer babies allows parents complete and effortless control on the genes picked by the parents and gives no chance for the child to resent against the adjustments the parents had made to their body. This can of course lead to a major mental upset to the baby as once they develop and grow up, they will eventually learn about the fact that the child is actually a modified and in some instances "Factory created" product. Of course, no one wants to accept the fact that they are indeed fully manufactured by their parents and a factory made product. Secondly, the child will produce and emmit emotions and preferences. When he learns about the pheotypes that have been used to make him, he might not favour some of them like the parents favour them. This can again lead to a major mental upset and the child will at some point resent to the parent which is an occassion that should not be acceptable in any time or place. Thirdly, the issue of gender inequality will rise again but this time, it will make a literal comeback. In many societies, preferrences are heavy on one specific gender. For example, in societies such as India of which consider males as the dominant gender, this issue will strengthen. When the technology of designer babies reach societies like India, countless of males will be bred and the gender ratio will be imbalanced. The ideal sex ratio is 970 girls every 1000 boys. With the application of such technologies in countries like India, there would be too many males and the act of reproduction of the next generation will be quite slow or even not possible if the condition goes too out of hand. Lastly, some sort of equality between societies will make a return. This is depicted in sources of media such as the movie Gattaca. If this was the case, it would mean that some statuses of the society are not able to afford such technologies will be discriminated and taken as the inferior kind.

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