Babies by Design
My belief is that we should be able in the near future create "babies by design", meaning that we would be able to scientifically alter our future childrens genes. The reason behind my choice is due to the fact that there are many babies/human beings born into this world that have genetic diseases or that have terrible disabilities that make it difficult for them to function in our everyday society. If we were to be able to create "babies by design" we would ultimatley be able to eliminate our future generations from having any of these genetic diseases or disabilities. It is already quite difficult to bring another life into this world, but to find out that your baby had a disease that would inevitably lead to death would be devestating to any parent. An example of such a terrible disease would be one such as PKU. PKU is a disease that is caused by the lack of a liver enzyme that is needed to break down the amino acid phenylalanine, there is nothing that can be done to prevent death and the child ends up dying quickly. I believe that in the near future we will be able to prevent such devetating results if we keep researching and opening up our minds to the possibility that we can somehow play god.
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