Sounds great.
Who wouldn’t want to guarantee that their child wouldn’t be born with a birth defect.
Of course, as with all things of this nature, the technology can and will be abused. But that should not stop us from using this to our benefit.
Well, you’ve got to admit it’s probably more time efficient and socially acceptable than selective breeding.
What was SciFi is now for real. Folks are always looking for an edge. What’s to stop parents from adding a little bit of gorilla DNA for strength, a little giraffe DNA for speed, a little owl DNA for night vision.......
raises many serious ethical issues.
im the parent of a child with a birth defect, but not a serious disease. some would call it a serious birth defect. she is still of school age, maturing and growing into quite an incredible person, to the point that everyone looks past her birth defect.
from what I have gathered, many parents these days with advance notice of this type a defect would have aborted the child. they would not have experienced the grace of god like I have through her.
to experience the grace of god is truly incredible and wonderful.
Strange. Seems like I’ve heard of the MASTER RACE before. Genetically superior beings.
Since we are told it’s genetic, perhaps the cure for homosexuality is right around the corner.
This has become fashionable so the Socialized Medicine crowd doesn’t have to dedicate any of ‘their’ money to taking care of children with diseases/defects. I doubt God looks on this as progress.......
Genetically modified children could be acceptable in narrow circumstances. Just like abortion, safe, legal, rare. I ain’t buyin’ it.
Every time I read stories like this, I’m reminded of the movie GATTACA.
To put this in perspective, the genetic problems they hope to edit out are quite large red flags in the genetic code, and are relatively easy to cut and paste with functional segments replacing them.
The other stuff, that most people fret about, is *not* obvious, has important parts scattered all over the genetic code, and is often closely tied with critical code parts, so ordinary cut and paste is out of the question.
For years they though perhaps a majority of the genetic code was unused “junk” code. Then the light dawned that this “junk” had a habit of almost randomly and essentially activating, and without it you would very quickly perish.
So, bottom line: it is going to save a lot of lives to eliminate bad chunks of code from the family tree of those who have distinctive and nasty defects.
The left will put an end to this just as soon as it’s used to prevent people from having gay or lesbian children.