Is it okay for a parent to choose their baby's eye color? IQ? Their personality?
However on the flip side if we disallow genetic modification we could lose out on many benefits. We have already figured out a lot of genetic disorders that occur inside the chromosomes. We can have it pinned down if a woman will get genetically-caused breast cancer or not and they can pretty much tell when a woman will have it. If somehow you could through gene therapy change the fate of a future child, would you?
If it is right to change their DNA for medical reasons but not for superficial reasons? Or are they both the same thing? If a child is going to be born with a 90 IQ should they suffer being born below average if we could easily change the fact in the future?
Or is that really all going too far?
Discuss
(I will post my opinion later. These are just some questions for consideration)
Edited by Tetiel, 08 December 2005 - 10:01 PM.