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Designer. Babies. F6A. Monica Chan. Nicole Lee. Agnes Tang. Patricia Tse. Janette Wong. Advertisement ... With eye colour, hair colour and other characteristics ... – PowerPoint PPT presentation

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Title: Designer Babies


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DesignerBabies
  • F6A
  • Monica Chan
  • Nicole Lee
  • Agnes Tang
  • Patricia Tse
  • Janette Wong

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Advertisement
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DB Company
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Baby
  • Made-to-order
  • With eye colour, hair colour and other
    characteristics predetermined

4
Reasons for designing babies..
  • To screen for inherit diseases (???)
  • To create a healthy baby
  • to treat a sick sibling
  • To select the sex of a future child

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Ethical problems
  • It treats the new baby as a commodity(??)
  • The child is just like a product of your choice.
  • It's murder
  • The child will only be allowed to live if it is a
    good product. Yet, if it is a bad one, it may be
    disposed of.
  • Human Rights/other problems
  • We should not Play God.

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Different views..
  • Doctors View
  • Service of disease prevention
  • For organs transplantation(????)

Religious Peoples View - Its absolutely
against gods will.
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  • Should parents be permitted to enhance their
    children?
  • Is the way parents rear a child also a way of
    designing a child?
  • Are designer babies post-humans?
  • Preventing disease or enhancing attributes(?? )?

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