How far has medical science come? According to a report, a fertility doctor named Jeff Steinberg is going to offer his patients the ability to choose their unborn baby’s eye color, hair color, and skin color.
Dr. Steinberg is well-known in the medical community because he helped to produce the first test tube baby.
Many people must be asking themselves is this really a good idea? Choosing some of the physical characteristics of your child can lead people to try and make what they deem perfect babies. Every person is different and in terms of physical characteristics nature should take its course.
Parents need to weigh the pros and cons of using this technology before they attempt to use it. Medical science has come a long way but should we really use this technology to make unborn babies look a certain way?
History has taught us that making a race of people that we deem as perfect and without flaws is wrong.
Adolf Hitler wanted to make a master race; he thought that Aryans were the supreme race and wanted to rid the world of people who had health problems, disabilities, or were of a different religious background.
The Holocaust was caused by Hitler’s warped theory of who should live and who should die;hopefully, fertility doctors and their patients will be careful about using this medical technology. What makes our world so unique is that every human being is different and no two people are the same.
There are several ethical considerations to be made in selective fertility, however equating the use of the technology with the Holocaust is a foolish jab.
Everyday we use corrective eyewear and braces to straighten teeth. No parent would desire a genetic flaw and would regret not hindering such problems by ignoring a preventive procedure similar to the one proposed by Dr. Steinberg.
The fear of creating a higher and lower class of people that have been born naturally or using these methods is realistic, but can be avoided by open speculation and discussion to enhance awareness. Too quickly has the author equated Nazi philosophy to progressive science. Reasonable people can be skewed through such fear mongering.
Hair and eye color don’t matter, right? So then it shouldn’t matter if people choose a certain hair or eye color. Doesn’t help or hurt anyone.
People should have the right to control their own genes.
How is this like Gattaca or Nazis?? This is randomization. People are individuals. They won’t all choose the same, and if we had a state party telling people what they could and couldn’t do with their own bodies and genes, that would be the real state-controlled situation. So, as long as it’s in the hands of individuals and not the government, I don’t see anything wrong with it.
I love the idea of choosing your unborn babies features its cool. You can have a gorgeous baby and I really considering it for my family when I get pregnant.
I think that being able to choose your babies’s hair,skin,eye color,etc. is wonderful & there is absolutely nothing wrong with it.The idea is quite far from the Aryan beliefs & Nazism because Hitler & his followers felt that everyone should have blonde hair,blue eyes,& fair skin.Future parents will most likely choose differing feature & color combinations,which is nothing like the ways of the Aryan nation.Also the Nazis dispised anyone who was diseased,disabled,& pretty much imperfect.Choosing features does not necessarily guarentee a perfect child.What about Autism?What about having a blind or deaf baby who is unable to see or hear you…or worse,both?A beautiful baby isn’t always a healthy baby.A beautiful baby is not always a perfect baby…& all babies are beautiful,whether they chemically or naturally look the way they do,because all babies are beautiful on the inside.That couldn’t get further from Nazi ideology,now,could it?