Jumat, 19 September 2008

Designer Babies

How can it happen?
1. Designer baby is found some scientists in USA to help some infertile couples to have a normal baby. For the first make, the scientists only designed normal baby. But, as the time goes on, the purpose becomes commercial, because now, the rich couples want to have perfect babies, such as good appearance, high intelligence, and healthy. With an expensive cost, they hope they will get what they want.
2. The process is very complicated. It started from the first step, the ovum is taken from the mother, and also the sperms from the father. Before the sperms used, the best condition and quality sperm is chosen by the scientists or doctors. After that, the sperm is implanted into the ovum, with very low voltage electroshock. The fertilized ovum put an incubator. The fertilized ovum will grow into zygote. After that, the scientists will test the zygote, and choose for the best, without any disease and good condition. The zygot will implant to the mother’s womb. In mother’s womb, the zygote will grow to become a baby.

What is a designer baby?
1. Advanced reproductive technologies that can make infertile couples can have their own baby.

2. Advanced reproductive technologies allow parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic disorders and select healthy embryos.

What can designer baby give to us?
1. We can choose our baby’s sex
• The method is to sort out a sample of the father's sperm and only fertilize the egg with either 'male' sperm or 'female' sperm. So, the parents can have baby like what they want.

2. We can have healthy baby
• Genetic screening of embryos using the techniques of sperm selection and PGD are sophisticated ways to avoid a growing number of genetic diseases.
• Using PGD it will soon be possible to screen and select for many more diseases, like : Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy cystic fibrosis, Down syndrome, Tay-Sachs disease and Hemophilia A.

Designer baby in our world

1. In 2000, in the United States, the Nash family made medical history by having a baby boy who had been selected using PGD to be a perfect tissue match for his very ill older sister. His sister suffered from a rare genetic disease so tissue from her new-born brother's placenta was used to restore her to health.
2. The same thing was allowed to occur in 2001 in the UK and now many more parents are applying to the authorities for permission to do the same thing.
3. In the United States a deaf lesbian couple has intentionally had two deaf children by artificial insemination using sperm from a man who had a long family history of deafness. This couple deliberately chose to bring a child into the world with a disability.


The Effects of Designer Baby

There are two effects from designer babies.
1. The positive effects, like: designer babies can help the infertile couples to have babies, it can make a healthy baby, a smart baby, and like what we want to.
2. But, there are negative effects too, like: the bad cells will be discarded, it mean killing. We know that killing is a bad activity. Besides that, not all designer babies will not create a baby like we want. Some parents will be very disappointed and they will not take care of the babies. And designer babies will widen the GAP among the rich and the poor. Rich parents always want to have perfect babies, for the better future, but the poor can’t have the perfect babies. The government will only pay attention to the growth of the babies from the rich people, and they will abandon the babies from the poor people.

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