My position on designer babies and why

I think creating designer babies is wrong for many reasons. First of all, it eliminates a child’s choice. Letting parents choose designer babies, like the negative side of our debate said, puts expectations on PGD children that may not be fulfilled. Another example is that some PGD children are created solely for the purpose of being donors for their sick siblings. These children would be expected to donate which is unfair. Along with PGD putting children into undesirable situations, it also puts the embryos that are not chosen to be implanted in an undesirable situation. These embryos are usually discarded or frozen and then discarded. PGD can ensure a child doesn’t inherit a disease, abnormality, or disability, but this brings into question what is considered a disability. What about when someone wants to use PGD to give a child a ‘disability’. For example, a deaf lesbian couple wanted to use PGD to have a deaf child. PGD could be used to avoid gender selective abortions, but this is only feasible for rich people and sex selective abortions are more prevalent in the developing world. Anyway, using PGD for gender selection can disrupt the gender ratio. As PGD technology advances, it can create a gap in society socially and economically. It can also have deleterious effects on the gene pool. Parents should just be happy with whatever children they end up. Along with the picky parents, parents who want to use PGD to get rid of diseases should probably just adopt. That way they can get a healthy child and save $20,000.