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Designer babies: advanced reproductive technology that allows parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic disorders and select healthy embryos.

Pros

  • get to have your baby to be the baby of your dreams.
  • genetic screening can reduce amount of serious diseases
  • can make baby smarter
  • satisfies parents
  • can level out boy/girl ratio
  • child has pressure of trying to please parents
Cons
  • baby can come out wrong
  • level of human biodiversity will plummet causing long term disaster
  • reduces child's freedom of choice
  • increase amount of unreasonable fear
  • increase hatred towards those who look different
  • rich will use genetic aristocracy--unfair advantage
  • any mistake can alter many generations
Cons (hypothetical)
  • government can mandate pre-selection of those that show qualities for good soldiers
  • everyone could want one gender putting boy/girl ration seriously out of balance
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The disadvantage of designer babies is that it may seem like a statement that human are the masters of their own fate. Also, engineering a designer baby takes the surprise out of the natural process.

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