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Michelle Vogt / J2e / English

Designer Babies

Do you want to decide what your Baby looks like?

Introduction

Structure

  • Definition
  • How to create
  • Why so popular?
  • Ethical aspects
  • Pros and Cons
  • Conclusion

Designer Babies

  • Definition

Designer Babies

  • Creation
  • Popular

Definition

Designer Babies:

Definition

  • genes have been selected by genetic engineering
  • parents want to be able to choose things

How to create a Designer Baby?

Option 1: Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

Creation

Option 2: Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Paliandromic Repeats

Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

PGD

1. egg cells are removed from the mother

2. egg cell and sperm are fused

3. some of the fertilized egg cells develop into blastocytes

4. If there is no abnormal finding, a fertilized egg cell is injected into the uterus

Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Paliandromic Repeats

CRISPR

  • Acts like scissors on a gene
  • Can cut DNA at a specific point
  • cut out diseases or insert new genes

Why are Designer Babies so popular?

Popular

  • You can decide how your baby looks like
  • You can decide which strengths your child should have
  • rescue siblings

Ethnic Aspects

Ethic

Utilitarianism

  • Only morally correct if both sides gain benefits

Topic 1

Species Argument

  • biologically belonging to the species Homo sapiens

Topic 2

  • same right to life as born people

Identity Argument

Topic 3

  • human dignity
  • human beeing and embryo is the same

Potentiality Argument

  • Embryo has the potential to be a born person

Topic 4

  • personal existence and moral subject

Pros and Cons

Pro

3

Positive aspects of Designer Babies

1

higher live expectancy

2

call the shots

altering the lifestyle earlier

Con

3

Negative aspects of Designer Babies

1

not error free

2

violation of your baby’s rights

marked gap in society

Conclusion

  • Opportunity against diseases

Conclusion

  • No long-term study
  • Power can be used in negative ways
  • Designer Babies can excluding others or the other way around

Source

http://www.drze.de/im-blickpunkt/pid/ethische-aspekte

https://www.igenomix.com/fertility-challenges/what-is-pgd-testing-and-how-does-it-work/

https://www.livescience.com/58790-crispr-explained.html

https://www.haz.de/Nachrichten/Wissen/Uebersicht/Ethikrat-Designer-Babys-Wann-sind-Eingriffe-ins-Erbgut-gerechtfertigt

https://www.livescience.com/designer-babies-far-from-reality.html

https://theconversation.com/those-designer-babies-everyone-is-freaking-out-about-its-not-likely-to-happen-103079

https://explorebiotech.com/pros-cons-designer-baby/

https://narabo.de/grundlagen-der-ethik-was-ist-der-utilitarismus

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