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To what extents will people go to achieve human perfection?

The problem is that people are making new technologies and methods to customise unborn children to their liking. The people that will get affected by this problem, are the people that are not specifically Designer Babies, because if Designer Babies become more of a common thing in the upper class families. The lower class families that can't afford Designer Babies won't be able to have a intelligent child. It is proven that Designer Babies are more smarter than normal babies, because there is a way to modify the genes in the embryo before IVF plantation. A lot of people want their child to be perfect and the way they want the child to be, so they will modify their child the best they can be. This is a huge problem because if Designer Babies continue to grow, the society will be divided into two, the Designer Babies and the Non Designer Babies. The largest impact to this problem is that the community will be divided into two and also it would create another level of racism that has never been before. If this problem was to have expanded it would be worldwide because all the upper class people in the world will choose this path for their child because they would think that it is the best for them. If this problem will not resolve, people will be frightened. People have been using the term "Designer Babies" as a feared word because in their mind, Designer Babies is religious and it can be stated as a act against god, because people are choosing what their child will be like instead of god choosing for them (it can be stated like this is some religions). In the end Designer Babies according to me is the problem because it will cause a huge imbalance in the community between people, and it can cause international worldwide effects.

Designer Babies, is a term used for the customisation of babies in the form before they are born (embryos). Women that are in the upper class request to do something called Designer Baby, which means the scientist will take the embryo of the women and then customise it to the women's liking of how she wants her child to be like. The selected genes is then inserted into the women's embryo and then implanted back into their womb using IVF so the Designer Baby (embryro) and then the baby will be born with the desired characteristics. Making a Designer Baby is very expensive and usually only upper class people can afford Designer Babies, so the people that can't afford Designer Babies usually can't get them. The are a lot of customisations for Designer Babies, just depends how many genes does the scientist that is operating have. The selected genes will be inserted into the embryo.

The main benefit of Designer Babies is that the upper class people can customise their unborn child to their hearts content. They can make their child, have a different type of hair, more intelligence, good health. All the things is already predicted because the women/mom has chosen how he would mostly look like. That is the biggest benefit. When looking at Designer Babies from that point of view, it is actually a great technology that was invented and it has helped people, from the other point of view, Designer Babies is a horrible and that it should stop because it is not fair for the lower class to not be able to get a baby or child as smart as a Designer one.

Human Imperfection is a factor of Designer Babies. Many scientists have tried to create the perfect human, perfect intelligence, perfect body, etc. Creating the perfect human will mean that the perfect sperm has to be matched with the perfect egg and the selected genes has to be really accurate, so it can provide more of those factors of Human Perfection for the Designer Baby. The real question to Human Imperfection in Designer Babies is, Are parents allowed to make their own baby/child? Now for the social factor of Designer Babies, is that once the child has grown, it might not have a stable mind towards the fact that they are genetically modified before birth, their parents chose their factors before birth and he was already "experimented" on before birth (while still in embryo form).

In conclusion Designer Babies is a "Problem" in the world, because it is basically making the perfect human and making the perfect human will make other normal humans at a disadvantage. Designer Babies is a term for genetically modifying embryo's. Parents/Women can choose the characteristics they want in their child so they know everything that they are going to expect, especially the cosmetic features of their child. Designer Babies is still considered as a "Problem" in many countries and now considered illegal, Designer Babies is still a new and very technological invention.

This is a video from Insight, where they talk a little bit about problems and their dislikes on Designer Babies