Morality and "Designer Babies"

In the Upfront Magazine article “Designer Babies”, a new way of having your dream child has been in the making. While parents could raise their kids well, many have decided that they would rather go a different way and create their own genetically modified babies. Now this may seem like a good idea if you want an easy way to get rich and live a good life, but at the same time, people should figure out how morally wrong it is. Humans are not meant to be tampered with, and greedy people such as the ones who want this invention must know that it is morally unacceptable.

The first reason why it is unacceptable, is that people need to realize the danger it is putting them in. If there were to be a mistake or a mutation in the baby, then  that would be putting much of the human race in danger. According to Jeremy Gruber, the president of the Council for Responsible Genetics, “You are conducting an activity that permanently alters the genome of an individual.” This goes to show that this idea could really ruin somebody’s life and be potentially dangerous to everybody near or close to them. Another reason why this is morally unacceptable is that people are forgetting the beauty of life. Without the normal birth of a baby, we could find ourselves living in a dystopian world where genetically modified beings are being cranked out by the minute to be shipped off to war, forced to sing and dance for peoples entertainment, and come up with new inventions while they might actually want to do something else. The parents are pretty much creating a future for their children that the children will have no say in

and that is extremely wrong and should not happen. Imagining a future with no freedom as a child is one of the scariest things to think about because most of your learning and life experiences happen at a young age. Now some people might think that this concept is a good idea because they want perfect little kids. This is morally wrong because kids are supposed to find their true hobbies and enjoy them rather than be forced by greedy parents to do exactly what they think you should have.

In conclusion, genetically modifying babies is morally wrong because children should 
have the freedom to become whatever they want and parents should not have the power to decide their kids future and what they will become. It is just a terrible thing to do, to control somebody’s decisions and try to limit their abilities.