Village Of The Dammed: Perfecting The Child

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Imagine that your grandchildren can pick exactly how their babies will look, think, and act. Your family curse of breast cancer or cystic fibrosis or early heart attack – not to mention dyslexia, fat thighs, shyness, or male-pattern baldness – will be vanquished in a single stroke. Your great-grandchildren will be as lean, literate, loquacious, and long-lived as their parents want them to be (Henig par.1). What ever happened to having children the normal way? When did parents’ areas of concern grow past just wanting the baby to have 10 fingers and toes? Now it seems parents want to muddle with nature and baby tailor-make their baby to achieve perfection. Then again who wouldn’t want perfection? Who wouldn’t want their child to be a blond super model rocket scientist with Michel Jordan’s abilities and J-lo’s butt? I wouldn’t. It isn’t fair to impose one’s views and goals on an unborn child when he cannot defend its wants. Children are not accessories, it is not right to coronate them with your wardrobe or try and custom-build a child with all the “bells and whistles.”
Who does get a say in what a person looks like? To many people God plays an important role in what you look like. It was said he “crafted” you before your were born. If you a person is unhappy with the way they turned you cursed god of your unfortunates and made a quick trip to the plastic surgeon. Other people blame their families’ gene
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pool that caused their bad looks or habits. The unhappy people look for ways not to pass the unappealing looks to their unborn children. Now there is a way for parents to alter and help their children become everything they couldn’t, by the help of The Genome Project.
The first human artificial chromosome was made in 2002(Begley 264). The human Genome project decoded all 3 bi...