The Pros And Cons Of Human Genome
The human genome is a very complex and delicate thing within this world. Somehow humans have been reproducing this genome for thousands of years; however, sometimes it does not come out perfect every time. This is where genetic control comes into play and I believe the main concern for this area of genetics is hard to truly know if it is doing more good than harm. One ethical issue that seems to be is the after effects of the choice to try to have a healthy child. For example, let’s say that a husband and wife are ready to have children but they both carry the PKU disease gene. Now the parents have two choices, they can either bring their baby with PKU into this world or they can abort their child with PKU. One big negative thing about keeping their affected child is that they will have to see their child suffer from the disease and most likely bury it when the disease consumes their child. However; the positive thing is that they
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This is technique the parents could use where the embryos are produced by in vitro fertilization and the disease free embryos can be transplanted inside the mother. This would allow the parents to be able to procreate a child with their own DNA instead of having to adopt a child. However, this is not a one hundred percent certain chance either. Some negatives with this is that the parent could have multiple births; which would not be a complete negative unless the parents could not financially take care of their now multiple children. Also, another negative of having a child this way is that the mother could miscarry. After weighing the pros and cons of potentially giving birth to a child with a chronic disease; I think the parents show try to do embryo selection. Yes, it is not a one hundred percent chance of working but I feel like it would be the best choice. Again, no parent wants to have to abort their baby nor watch him or her to suffer from a genetic
This is technique the parents could use where the embryos are produced by in vitro fertilization and the disease free embryos can be transplanted inside the mother. This would allow the parents to be able to procreate a child with their own DNA instead of having to adopt a child. However, this is not a one hundred percent certain chance either. Some negatives with this is that the parent could have multiple births; which would not be a complete negative unless the parents could not financially take care of their now multiple children. Also, another negative of having a child this way is that the mother could miscarry. After weighing the pros and cons of potentially giving birth to a child with a chronic disease; I think the parents show try to do embryo selection. Yes, it is not a one hundred percent chance of working but I feel like it would be the best choice. Again, no parent wants to have to abort their baby nor watch him or her to suffer from a genetic