Many years ago, people did not think fetuses have life. In that period, they did not have any right, even the right to get born sometimes was also a extravagant hope to them. Nowadays, with the development of technology, designing baby is going on the stage, which evoke us thinking about questions like "dose a fetus have the right to prevent genetic changes?"
"The tern "designer baby" refers to a baby whose genetic makeup has been artificially selected by genetic engineering combined with in vitro fertilisation to ensure the presence or absence of particular genes or characteristics."(from wikipedia ) The technology can allowed parents to decided their babies' gender, appearance, even personality. Parents may think that they are helping their babies to have a better future.
In my opinion, designing babies is a violation of fetuses' right. This kind of changing is the same with abortion. If a person's appearance and even personalities are changed, we can hardly assume that the original one and the change one are the same. Therefore, if a person are changed when he or she are still a fetus. I think the another possibility is murdered. On the other hand, designer babies can cause many social problem, if a person's appearance, intelligence and personalities can be change or improved by the choice of their parents, then parents will under a big pressure especially who cannot afford a designing. Because their babies' futures depend on them, but they cannot make their babes more competitive in the future,which in turn makes the poor generation more poor and the rich richer.
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