Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Designer babies

After reading about what scientists want to do I feel like its a bad idea. There are many reasons such as I would feel like it wasn't really my baby. This is because you would be changing the characteristics and genes that they would normally be getting from their parents. Then again there could be some positive things such as you can get rid of genetic disorders like sickle cell or obesity. But i still think it would really be considered your child if you changed the eyes and there isn't a gene that can give you blues eyes from one of your mates. Or how tall they will be if you and your mate are short. Clearly a designer child could have up and positive outcomes, but really it wouldn't be considered your child if you change its genes from the parents. So yes i do think technology is getting to ahead of itself and needs to do more research and maybe take surveys if people would like to have their babies basically created for them.