Disease prevention
Such a large majority of parents want a designer baby because of the disease and defects that can much easily be prevented or lessened. By pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, doctors are able to choose normal embryos and dispose of defected embryos. They reapply the healthy and normal embryo preventing any spotted diseases, defects or abnormalities for the perfect baby. Some types of diseases that can be avoided are, muscular dystrophy, heart conditions/diseases, liver disease, and many more. Also, this can avert the next generation of the family from receiving diseases like originally passed down in the family's history. Changing genetics of the unborn child can prevent new diseases and ways of
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would you want a designer baby?
One reason to want a designer baby is because some mothers are unable to give birth to a healthy baby and are told not to get pregnant. This for example can be very devastating for the mother and father. Designer babies gives them the opportunity to create and have a family of their own. With this, mothers who have health conditions or genetic based diseases and are unable of having a child because risks of death before being born or defects, now have that chance. Techniques can change the form of makeup and allow the child to survive after all. Another reason parents choose designer babies is because the choice of genetics in their "perfect" child. Picking and choosing different genetics and traits from both parents allows the child to have great intelligence and a massive increase of their lifespan. Picking and choosing genes for the child can have a great impact on the child, the family, and its future children.
a better understanding of genetics
Scientists today believe that designer babies will help and nudge them in a direction that can improve and better understand genetics and diseases. Scientists will be able to dig deeper into the true facts and outcomes of genetics if they are able to completely chose and over power them in the future. Designer babies allows science to expand in a new and more inside way than ever before to find out every detail about genetics and humans themselves.