Designer Babies I have been teased and prodded for as long as I can remember, but what I didn't know was that I was actually a teased and prodded individual even before my existence. They should have called me, instead of Wang, DNA transplant. I find my existence not as real or desired as that of others who were conceived naturally with loving parents and even with the idea of ​​other loving parents adopting their children. It just seems unfair to me that my parents make decisions for me before I was even born. The idea that anyone would want to create their own child is absurd. The process of our body eliminating bad genes is something we cannot control. We cannot begin to have the same instinct as our body. Allowing this to happen could jeopardize an individual's identity and how extraordinary they are and how far parental decision making goes. This process will also affect the “designed child” emotionally as the child may think that he or she is not real in the sense that he or she was created for selfish purposes. Altering an embryo's genetics affects the baby physically and emotionally. As well as having a long-term impact on society as a whole. Designer babies, a term used by journalists, are described as “advanced reproductive technologies that allow parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic diseases and select healthy embryos” (Bionet). There are three ways that can be used to create this “designer baby”. “The simplest way to create a designer baby is human cloning: taking a cell from an adult and combining it with a human egg to create an identikit clone of the adult. This is the ultimate purebred baby with guaranteed genes […] Another more difficult way to create designer people, or a super race, is to take sperm or eggs, or cells in a developing embryo, and add new genes to them. This is called germ cell alteration […] A third way is to alter the cells after birth. This is called somatic cell alteration. Here the effects will end with the death of the person and will not be passed on to a second generation of tailor-made children” (Dixon). Parents make decisions for their children before they are even born. The unborn fetus is denied the opportunity to shape its own identity because its physical traits were indirectly chosen for it. The child is artificial and unnatural. A scientific experiment carried out incorrectly, in the hope of creating a conscious idea of... middle of paper... that destiny can only be made possible by altering the traits nature intended us to inherit. Thus putting incorrect thoughts on people's views of what is acceptable. When in reality everyone is different and that is what gives a person an identity and if we were all the same then it would be a world of chaos and if you are not rich enough then you are cast aside as 'the ugly duckling'”. Once we are able to genetically change our child, the imperfect will not be accepted into a "superhuman race" society of intelligent, flawless, disease-free people. Websites from which I obtained quotes1http://www.bionetonline.org/English /Content/db_cont1.htm"Advanced reproductive technologies allow parents and doctors to screen embryos for genetic diseases and select healthy embryos. " -definition2http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DD57.htmDebating "custom-made babies" Personal reproductive choices should not be subject to legal regulation. by Ellie Lee3http://www.reason.com/rb/rb030602.shtmluseful information.