What do you know about genetic engineering to create the perfect baby?

You want to have the perfect baby, get all the genetically good things about you and your partner? Gene technology will be a suggestion for you.

Gene technology, also known as "baby design" technology is still quite new to many people. Gene technology has many advantages such as creating a baby that meets all genetic good points, less diseases ... but there are also many people who object from ethical aspects and many other factors.

What is genetic engineering?

Pre-engineered babies are babies created through genetic screening or genetic modification. Genetic change is the process of using technology to modify the genetic structure of cells.

Thanks to advances in genetics, doctors and couples are able to genetically screen embryos before they are implanted. In addition, doctors can use some other genetic intervention to create a baby according to the subjective human wishes.

Common characteristics of babies born from genetic technology

Here are some common traits that can change if you intend to create a pre-designed baby:

Sex

Appearance

Reduce the risk of getting sick or having a particular medical condition

Character

Change and improve intelligence

Advantages of gene technology

1. Increase life expectancy

If you create a baby designed through genetic modification, it can increase the baby's life by up to 30 years.

When a pre-engineered baby is created, most of the fetal's defective genes are removed and only the healthy ones left behind. As a result, babies will grow up healthier than babies with a combination of defective genes and healthy genes.

Once the diseases are removed from the gene,  the baby's health and longevity will be enhanced.

2. Reduce the risk of diseases of genetic disorders

Using genetic engineering makes a baby less likely to develop genetic disorders such as:

Alzheimer's disease : is a genetic disorder that affects memory and thinking.

Down syndrome is a disorder that causes a baby to be born with a number of physical and cognitive defects.

Spinal muscular atrophy is a disease that affects muscles.

Huntington's disease is a disease that causes movement disorders, intellectual impairment and changes in behavior.

In many cases, the use of genetic techniques not only reduces the risk of disease, but also increases the viability of the fetus.

3. Reducing the risk of inherited diseases from parents

The pre-designed baby technology also reduces the risk of the baby inheriting a number of diseases from its parents such as obesity, diabetes, anemia, cancer ...

4. Have a positive impact on your baby's entire life

Using genetic techniques to create a pre-engineered baby will help your baby have a good life in the future.

When you influence some aspects such as health, intelligence, appearance ... in a positive direction, the baby's life will also be better in the future.

You will be able to set limits and control the physical and mental changes your baby will go through as you like.

5. Change your baby's lifestyle right from the start

Parents often want to influence their child's lifestyle in many ways such as education, religion, lifestyle, moral values ​​... Instead of impacting when the baby is grown, creating a "baby is designed". will help you do it right from the start.

For example, instead of spending a lot of time teaching your baby to study well and hard, you can do this right before your baby is born by enhancing your baby's thinking ability through genetic techniques to make it easier for them. easily achieve success in life.

Disadvantages of gene technology

1. Ethical aspect

In the process of genetically altering the creation of a pre-engineered baby, you select only cells that you know are going to be good people and discard those that will become bad people. Many people think that this is almost the same as an abortion, so they are not advocating.

Many people decide to create a pre-engineered baby just to get stem cells. When the baby is born, they extract the cells they want and discard the baby.

Many people even decide to create a “pre-engineered baby” just to get compensation for the stem cell donation and then destroy the baby.

2. Child rights violations

When you create a pre-designed baby, you directly change a person's life and ideal without his or her permission or choices. You will change your baby's mind, emotions, and body throughout life regardless of whether he wants it or not.

In addition, your baby should not interfere with your use or disposal of your baby's cells. You might think this is just for your baby's good, but it will change your baby's life forever and are you sure he will agree?

It can be said that you are treating your baby as a test object, not a human being.

3. There is no process without mistakes

The use of genetic techniques to create a pre-engineered baby is still a very new technology. That means it's still in beta and needs more time to research. This process is not 100% safe, although many babies are living a happy and healthy life, there is still much work to be done. Some mistakes in creating a pre-engineered baby can lead to miscarriage. Because technology is still in the process of experiment and research. Therefore, health experts have not yet foreseen all possible preventive consequences.

In addition, genetics is not always 100% correct. This means that in the future, the pre-designed babies may encounter certain "problems". For example, the genes that control intelligence can also control anger problems. So if you choose to keep this gene, it also means that your baby will be very smart but also very aggressive. Scientists will do everything to get rid of disease when modifying genes, but some mistakes can inadvertently give rise to new diseases that they don't know how to treat.

4. Creating distance in society

When the baby is pre-designed, the baby will have obvious differences compared to normal babies. This is the reason why many parents want to use this technology, but it can create a gap in society.

If more and more parents want to create pre-designed babies, the world will be divided into two groups: 1 group of pre-designed babies and 1 group of normal babies. The result will create hostility in the future such as racism, class division ...

5. Some other disadvantages of gene technology

Not entirely without mistakes and can lead to fetal death

Accidentally caused diseases that scientists do not know

The cost is high, only the rich can afford to create the pre-designed baby.