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designer baby I. What if your future child could be engineered to avoid the risk of cancer that runs in your family? What if your fetus’ DNA could vaccinate her against Herpes or AIDS? Would you be willing to take the chance to help your child? II. Well, 72% of our class had never heard about “Designer Baby”. III. However, 38% strongly agreed that “Designer Baby” was dangerous (SMS survey). IV. I believed that too when I started doing research. V. But I found that every source that I looked at was giving the issue great reviews. VI. In many situations, doctors could and probably would suggest the genetic designing of your offspring. I. Children are being born now with disabilities and disorders every day. A. A new procedure called “Designer Baby” was created to help people become healthier. 1. 60% of people surveyed by Time.com said that they would test their unborn children to rule out fatal diseases (Time.com). B. Parents now have the possibility of testing genes for mutations and genetic problems (BBC News). 1. One couple in the UK who had a child that died from cystic fibrosis was able to screen their new fetus’ genes so that their child would be born healthy (Begley). C. Dozens of couples in the United Kingdom are opting to have this done so they can give birth to free from disease 1. Over 200 regulated cases have performed in Europe D. Doctors now say that this procedure is a great advantage because as adults, we have 50,000 cells in the muscles of our fingers, but a fetal finger might have less than 20 at the earliest stages. 1. This makes it easier to detect abnormalities before it is too late. E. But where is the line between saving your unborn child from diseases and creating an offspring to save your dying child? II. In the USA, human cloning is illegal. Bill Clinton signed into effect a law stating that human cloning was unethical and immoral. A. Doctors in Europe, where this procedure developed, had a hard time convincing people that they were not cloning human genes, they were making cells better. B. In the US, doctors have also faced this challenge. C. With the help of media coverage, procedures where genes are tested and treated will someday be very common. D. One day your wife or husband may be carrying a gene that has the Alzheimer disease on it and not even know it. 1. Doctors could possibly save your child from future pain, but only if this procedure becomes ethical and moral. III. The first US case of genetically designing a baby took place in Englewood, Colorado. A. Jack and Lisa Nash had a six year old daughter. B. Molly had a fatal genetic condition called fanconi anemia. C. Her parents hoped to create a child to save their daughter’s life. D. This could only happen if blood was transplanted from their second child’s umbilical cord to Molly. 1. Also the blood types had to match perfectly. Jack and Lisa were taking a huge risk. E. If Lisa conceived this child naturally, it would have a 25% chance of developing the condition also. F. So she and her husband decided to have embryos screened for a healthy one that did not carry this disease. G. Lisa’s doctors used in-vetro fertilization to help the Nash’s develop the perfect child to save their daughter. H. After Adam Nash was born, the cells from his umbilical cord were transplanted into Molly. 1. Her survival chances had improved from 30% to over 90%. I. Without technology advances, the Nash’s and many others could possibly go throughout never having children. 1. Or even worse, losing their children to deaths that could have been prevented. I. You now know “Designer Baby” is not as horrible as you originally thought, but it has the possibility of being abused. II. Let’s look at the Ramm family from the USA. A. The father was diagnosed as infertile. B. He and his wife wanted to have children so they turned to Dr. Robert Graham. C. Dr. Graham was the man who created the Repository for Germinal Choice. D. This sperm bank was designed for people with lots of money who wanted sperm from the “world’s brightest and most talented members of the world’s population.” E. Graham’s vision is to help “improve mankind” by supplying the world with geniuses (Bowness). 1. In this article written by Glen Bowness, he asks us if Dr. Graham reminds us of anyone in the past. 2. It sure reminds me of Hitler and his blond haired, blue eyed perfect race. 3. This is not what doctors had envisioned this procedure to be used for. III. As Dr. Michael Jarmulowicz stated, “All children should be born for their own sake, not as a purpose for someone else’s benefit” (BBC News). Bibliography: BIBILOGRAPHY SMS survey. Briana Mock. November 21, 2000. Kohlenberg, Leah. www.salon.com/health. October 5, 2000. McGee, Glenn. www.med.upenn.edu/genetics. January 6, 2000. BBC News. http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/health.stm. October 4, 2000. Crace, John. www.time.com. October 10, 2000. Fox. www.fownews.com. October 10, 2000. Begley, Sharon. www.newsweek.washingtonpost.com. November 9, 1998. www.time.com/health. 2000. Bowness, Glen. www.cybersoftware.dasol.co.uk/essays.htm. 2000.

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