Science babies - EO anglais

Idea of progress

The progress is an Evolution that can be social scientific or technical and it advances every day. Recently, movies, novels and articles are about science babies, but, is it a good idea to play with science? First, we will see how they are created, then, why they are useful and what are the limits.

In the movie Gattaca, a couple uses science to have a baby with the help of a scientist who can select genes with genetic engineering. The parents can choose the physical aspect, personality, gender and diseases for the baby. Once the selection is made, they use in vitro fertilization.

In the novel Brave New World the babies' creation is less realistic because the development of eggs take place in incubators. But, maybe if genetic engineering becomes more important, mass production of babies will exist. We could choose a baby on a Shelf like at a supermarket.

In 2010 two articles are published about parents who have created their baby. One family use pre implantation genetic diagnosis to predict illness and have healthy baby. The other family designs their baby in order to save their daughter who was dying from a nasty disease. The boy was created with the matching characteristics to transplant the right cells in his sister's body.

However, we can't do what we want with the science because our actions are limited by the bioethic. Genetics modifications are expensive, so only rich people can have this luxury.

The science babies can be useful for curing diseases but if rich people use so much this scientific progress could imagine that in the future, there will a wider gap between rich people and poor people.

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