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Gene Therapy


Parents can now pick a kid?s sex and screen for genetic illness. Will they someday select brains and beauty too?

In the ever- advancing technological world, scientists discover new and efficient ways to advance society each and every single day. Imagine being able to choose your child?s body type, or personality, or IQ. It is not as farfetched as it sounds. It?s a process called ?Gene Therapy?, and is being perfected right now. This process rules out any unknown?s in childbirth. It will not only allow us to determine the child?s sex, but also his future.

In natural child conception, the mother provides the the two X chromosomes and the father provides the X and Y chromosomes. The balance of genetic make up is determined by the father since he is the only one that has the diversity of genes. With all this, the genetic combinations are completely random, allowing much room for fault. With science controlling the joining of such chromosomes, many of the fatal or physically impairing infant diseases will disappear. Scientist? say they can pick out disease causing genes in the pre-natal stage before they grow.

Controlling infant disease is only one aspect of the new technology.
Determining a child?s sex is also under discussion. As a very controversial topic, determining a child?s sex will also reflect on society?s views of gender rolls in the world today. Many societies value men over women immensely, so will this reflect on the diversity... [to view the full essay now, purchase below]

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