Designing a New Generation
Ethical Issues:
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playing God and treating children as commodities.
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goes against individuality
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“Ethicists argue that altering an embryos genetic blueprint to make a baby smarter or healthier – or prettier – would destroy what it means to be human.”- David Masci
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the use and limits of the process that undergoes designing a baby with no birth defects
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Parents often want to create their own child for selfish reasonings
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interference with nature
Social Issues:
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can lead to discrimination against women or a certain race in society
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Scientist say that Social Darwinism will soon start to take place
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Domain of the wealthy, so the impact is perhaps not yet significant.
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idividualitiy will become less common amongst future generations
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Genetic diversity
Legal Issues:
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something can go wrong, a greater mutation
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who will enforce the power to say when enough is enough? Parents? Lawyers?
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Another issue concerns the right of the unborn child to preserve their own genetic autonomy
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Not a 100% safe for the child or the mother
