Thursday 16 May 2013

Revision notes for RS ethics - DESIGNER BABIES

DESIGNER BABIES

Babies with gender and characteristics chosen by their parents - currently illegal.

AGAINST

  • Involves the selection of embryos that have the 'right features' and the destruction of those which don't
  • There is a risk that the test itself could damage the foetus thus harming an otherwise human being
  • Shows an unhealthy search for the 'perfect child' 
  • New life should be accepted ad loved in all its forms
  • Lead to the rich becoming a better human species
  • Babies are a gift from God to be accepted and loved as they come
FOR
  • Morally acceptable when it comes to ensuring the babies are healthy
  • Relieves the suffering of parents who give birth to on child after another who will die at a very early age
  • Could stop inherited diseases
  • Enables children to fulfil their potential

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