gical advances will lead to more exorbitant fees, which will in turn cause a reduction in the amount and types of people that can afford these new procedures. Will future generations of natural births then be lorded over by a genetically enhanced master class? Will these future “perfect people” segregate themselves from the flawed human class of today? Will they be at an advantage in the society? Another moral and social problem that arises from this genetic donation is the loss of the ability to trace genetic lines. If a man gives a sperm sample about three times a week, and each donation is split up into three samples, he has the potential to father a dozen children in one week alone. If this matter is shipped all over the country between different sperm banks how can we keep up who is from what genetic descent? This can quite possibly lead to inner familial (in the genetic sense) marriages, causing many genetic defects in future generations. These new technological advances can actually hinder the human race. With the completion of the Human Genome Project rapidly approaching, the scenario becomes even more farfetched. Don’t want your child to need braces? Why then you can just pull out the gene for crooked teeth and replace it with the gene for a perfect smile. Does diabetes run in your family? Well then just check out your unborn child is a carrier for the disease and remove the gene before you even give birth. I can see the future already. Rather than having computer software that allows you to do virtual makeovers with a picture of yourself, you’ll have a program that lets you build the perfect offspring.This is all well and good, working towards building a better species, but several moral questions arise. Will these children, created in a lab, perhaps even reared in an incubator possess a soul or aura? Is it morally wrong to genetically alter a fetus in order to fulfill the parent̵...
