Designing babies

Designing babies

     It is amazing that babies can be designed before they are born, but advanced science and technology show that it will come true one day. Only with changing specific genes, parents can get a perfect baby, who they have dreamed of. How the world will be changed if babies can be designed?

     One change is that the definitions of “disadvantage” and “advantage” will fade away, since all the later generations can be designed perfectly. Designed babies break the saying “there is no perfect people in the world”, and with the parents’ desire for perfect children, the designed babies will increase crazily. When all people worldwide are perfect, their perfect cannot be highlighted because they are in common with one another. The “perfect” people pursued vanish eventually. As the saying goes, “Sometimes regret is also a kind of beauty”, so the world need people with different shortcomings.

     The other change is that many genes problems will occur. The perfect genes are taken from some people with ideal characteristics, that means designed babies’ genes are not totally hereditary from their parents. So the genes are in a mess, and with the contribution of marriage, genes problems will be more serious. Marriage cannot happen between close relatives because of the big chance of getting genes diseases. Designed babies, however, cannot avoid this accident.

     In conclusion, designing babies not only causes the fading of the concept “perfect”, but also leads to genes problems. Designing babies had better not put into effect before all the incidental problems can be solved.