What is a designer baby
What is a designer baby? Designing a baby is a very complicated method which involves long procedures. Different things are associated with the term “designer baby”. ... PGD is important to designing babies as its method is used frequently in the process of test tube babies and “designer babies”. ... These are few of the many different methods to design a baby; Amniocentesis or CVS on a developing foetus can be performed which is when fluid is taken from the mothers womb which the foetus has given out can be analysed and screened to see if it has any defects. This is the most widely used technique and if it has a genetic disease then the baby can be aborted. Picking an embryo for its specific traits is designing your baby, this is not yet possible as it would be illegal but as the understanding of the human genome improves it could be detected what features your embryo has. Selecting the sex of your baby, there are legitimate medical reasons for wanting to choose the sex of your baby. ... Also there are methods after fertilisation called PDG which screens the baby to see it’s sex and if it is not the required sex then up until twenty two weeks of pregnancy you can have an abortion. ... In Britain it is illegal to perform most kinds of "Designer baby" procedures but the HFEA monitors giving out licenses to people requiring IVF or DI storage of eggs treatment. ... Many people may they be Christians or not have got it in their best interest when wanting a baby for it to be healthy and hypothetically ‘perfect’. So if the chance arises it seems a very good idea to choose the baby of your dreams. There are many arguments for “designer babies”; Using these techniques can prevent certain genetic diseases. ... The argument is suggesting that if they pay so much and are left with a baby that has a genetic disease then that will be more emotional strain and make everyone unhappy if this can be avoided why let it happen?