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IDEA OF 'DESIGNER' BABIES WITH DEFECTIVE GENES STIRS ETHICS QUESTIONS

The power to create "Perfect" Designer babies looms over the world of prenatal testing.
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I find this study a little disturbing, I can understand the reason they want to have a child similar to them but to actually and purposely "create" a child with a disability just for selfish reasons? I mean, in my opinion nobody can argue that is only for the parent's sake, therefore is selfishness. As a parent myself, I wish each one of my kids can be as healthy as they can possible be! Don't take me wrong, I am sure couples with disabilities having "normal" kids probably struggle in their relationships, but that's a normal step and process in parenthood regardless whether the child or parents have disabilities.

Can you imagine that kid growing up and probably struggling through his/her disability to find out that his/her own parents played God so he/she can born this way and look like the parents? Sorry, I find it very disturbing.

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I think it is ethical to manipulate genes in order to get rid of problems in a family line but not to create problems -- that's child abuse.

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Right now there are big ads from clinics in California and New York offering Designer Babies for US$20,000. You can choose if you want the baby to have blue eyes, hair color, gender, etc.

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I believe that a designer babe may have some problems that we are not seeing at this time. We will learn the errors of our ways soon I believe.

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If you think about it this Hitler's dream come true. All their experiments revolved around things similar to this. I am surprised the US has no laws to stop it, but then again that may change.

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That's because those procedures are very expensive. Wait when (if) become available to the average "Joe", I imagine a world of only blondes with blue eyes babies!

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Everyone wants to be a viking like me. I hope that if this technology ever comes to be made affordable that laws are passed to prevent it from being mainstream. I like the fact that we are all the same yet different. We need to keep the gene pool as diverse as possible. I would not like to see a baby vending machine where you pick your own child out by pressing a few buttons.