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Designer Babies
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What is a Designer Baby?
A designer baby is a baby genetically engineered in vitro for special selected traits, which can vary from lowered disease-risk to gender selection.
In the future, this could mean the inclusions of other traits such as eye color, hair color, athleticism or height
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How do you make a Designer Baby?
Two Legal Forms:
Choosing the type of sperm (xx, xy) to determine the sex and genes of the baby
Screen the embryos for genetic disorders. Then selected healthy embryos are implanted (Pre-implantation Genetic Diagnosis)
Most techniques involve InVitro Fertilization
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Who has Designer Babies?
Parents who are concerned with their medical histories or previous children’s illnesses
Couples who have the privilege to ‘balance’ their families
Balancing a family is when a couple already has one or more children of a certain sex, for instance all boys, and want their next child to be the opposite sex, a girl.
This is very expensive
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Cost of a Designer Baby
Different pathways to arrive at a designer baby
1st ($2,500): Figuring out the sex based on a sperm donation but this does not include InVitro Fertilization. If IVF is required it can become a lot more expensive.
2nd ($20,000): To harvest and freeze eggs (usually around 30) earlier in a woman’s life.
Then to fertilize her egg using IVF with her husbands/partners sperm and screen the embryo for disease before it is implanted into the uterus.
($10,00-$15,000) per each treatment
Ex: Three children via this method = $65,000
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Why do people want a Designer Baby?
Preventing genetic disease
Primarily aesthetic reasons
Single mothers/sperm banks
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Ethics
Council on Ethical and Judicial Affairs deems unethical
Social Division
Possible Neoeugenics
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Future
Future advancement in reproductive procedures
Being able to fix unhealthy DNA in an embryo instead of searching for a perfectly naturally healthy embryo
Being able to create an embryo with the exact aesthetic traits as a couple wishes.
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Creating Baby
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Citations
www.thegardian.com/science/2004/jul/22/sciencenews.health3
www.cbsnews.com/news/choosing-your-babys-gender/
http://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&q=designer+babies&btnG=&as_sdt=1%2C39&as_sdtp=
www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/07/designer-babies-are-only-for-the-rich.html
http://embryo.asu.edu/pages/ethics-designer-babies
www.bionetonline.org/english/content/db_cont1.htm