A Designer Baby?

The facts below is going to be about Designer Babies

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The fear is that in the future we may be able to use genetic technologies to modify embryos and choose desirable or cosmetic characteristics. Designer babies is a term used by journalists to describe this frightening scenario. It is not a term used by scientists.
Advanced reproductive techniques involve using InVitro Fertilisationor IVF to fertilise eggs with sperm in 'test-tubes' outside the mother's body in a laboratory. These techniques allow doctors and parents to reduce the chance that a child will be born with a genetic disorder. At the moment it is only legally possible to carry out two types of advanced reproductive technologies on humans. The first involves choosing the type of sperm that will fertilise an egg: this is used to determine the sex and the genes of the baby. The second technique screens embryos for a genetic disease: only selected embryos are implanted back into the mother's womb. This is called Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD).
Recently scientists have made rapid advances in our knowledge of the human genome and in our ability to modify and change genes. In the future we may be able to "cure" geneticy diseases in embryos by replacing faulty sections of DNA with healthy DNA. This is called germ line therapy and is carried out on an egg, sperm or a tiny fertilised embryo. Such therapy has successfully been done on animal embryos but at present it is illegal to do this in humans.

Key Ideas:

Designer Babies is using genetic technologies to modify embryos and choose cosmetic characteristics.
Designer Babies is a term used to describe this frightening scenario.
Designer Babies involve IVF (InVitro Fertilisation).
People can choose the gender of their baby by choosing the perfect type of sperm.
People can also screen embryos for genetic disease and then only selected embryos are implanted back into the womb.
Scientists have found out a way to modify and change genes which basically mean that scientists can choose the characteristics of your child just by doing the procedures in the laboratory
This is legal to do on animals, but then illegal to do on humans

Bibliography:

"What is a designer baby?." What is a designer baby?. N.p., n.d. Web. 19 Oct. 2014. <http://www.bionetonline.org/english/content/db_cont1.htm>.

Paraphrasing:

Designer Babies is basically using genetic technologies to modify embryos, basically scientists take a women's embryo and then customise it to the women's likings, and that is basically choosing cosmetic characteristics, so when the embryo is customised it will be inserted into the women's womb and it will become a customised baby. A lot of journalists use the Designer Babies term for the frightening scenario of customised babies or children. From the facts that has already been given, Designer Babies is using the IVF procedure, because the women's embryo is being taken out and then inserted back into the womb. As from the facts, Designer Babies is customising your baby before birth, so people can choose the specific gender by inserting the perfect sperm into the egg. Also people can take out the diseases and only insert the selected embryos. Scientists can modify and change genes depending on the likes of the women/mom. The women/mom can choose the characteristics for the Designer Baby so it can suit her liking, and also Designer babies are legal to do on animals, but it is illegal to do to real life human is some places.

This video is explaining more about IVF and Designer Babies, so things can clear up