Designer Babies
Society continues to find new ways to sink lower in morality and virtue. A fertility clinic in Los Angeles is now offering prospective parents the opportunity to select various physical traits, such as eye color, hair color, and skin complexion. By the way, I have a disabled child from birth with a chromosomal disorder. But when we turn the joy of having children into picking out traits as if from a McDonald’s drive through menu, we have sunk to a new low of selfishness. This is simply selfishness on the part of any parent who would want to pick out your child’s traits before birth. Nothing but selfishness. Maybe we will soon be able to ask for traits that will make our children great baseball players so we can millionaires. The world has lost its common sense.
We are not far from discarding/killing children that do not have the traits we want them to have so we can have some sort of perfect, genetically engineered family.
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Richard
March 3, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Thank you Brent.
These things also have another side. Some folks are paying to have multiple fertilities, for twins or better in the womb so that they can pick how many, the sex, to pick some of the mentioned characteristics. It is now yours  to truly have the “pick of the litter” so to speak. I’ll not mention what takes place to the unwanted ones. Margaret Sanger would be so proud.
Joel
March 7, 2009 at 12:51 am
As someone who owns a cat that is a “designer” pet, Â the thought of breeding people that way disturbs me greatly. Â My “designer” cat is a very high maintenance animal whose personality hardly resembles fluffy the housecat. Â She has very rapid mood changes and can be quite domineering at times. Â I see the dangers in doing such breeding with people. Â Also, with those multiple babies in the womb, how can they all receive proper nutrition from the mother. Â Having a half bred Asian Leopard for a pet is one thing, but people have souls when created God’s way. Â Now we’re playing God and he tends not to like that. Â All this cloning and invetro-fertilization is playing with fire. Â Eventually this will go to far, and God will either remove our technology or he will remove us for “toying” with his creation when we don’t know what we’re doing. Â Either way, nothing good will come of this.
Aaron
March 11, 2009 at 9:05 pm
Through this new tecnology we will bring everyone our downfall. Those who are not Genetically modified will be put down, Discriminated for the lack of ceartain genes. Soon we will be seperated into new classes as the Jews were with Hitler and his Army. Hitler by trying to do the same thing and by trying to create the perfect aryan race led to his downfall and the downfall of Natzi Germany as well. Other nations disagreed with his poor choices. Let us not do the same again as he once did.
Also with choosing the traits of your child you are able to give him or her good health. By changing the genes to make this so it is also setting the “Designer babies” up for a mass pandemic. With the same immune systems they will all die to the disease that others with different immune systems would simply get sick from. If there is one thing that we cannot for sure make to perfection it is the immune system.
Joel
March 12, 2009 at 9:40 am
The problem with so many issues like the subject matter in “designer babies” is that nobody puts all the pieces together. Â We are on a path where so-called rights will become responsibilities. Â For instance, the right to have an “abortion” will the responsibility to do so if the government feels necessary. Â The “right to die” will become the responsibility to die when “big brother” doesn’t feel like paying medical expenses for the elderly anymore. Â The “right” to “invetrofertilization” Â will become the responsibility when those in power want more taxpayers.
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Aaron touched on something in his comment that I was hinting at in my “Weimar Republic part II” post.  The Nazi or “National Socialist” party was a marriage of total government empowerment with large powerful corporations.  These took the place of God in the land that had once given rise to the Protestant reformation.  Children in the Weimar republic were indoctrinated by atheists and occultists who used the “Aryan” myth to give people something to worship to take  the place of God.  People were taught that the Aryans were the “Master” race and others such as Jews or Blacks were “subhuman.”  In the post WW1 era, the economy in The Weimar (German) economy collapsed.  Severe depression and massive inflation (due to overprinting of money) caused a desire for change. The money was worthless, people starving and there was the looming war debt that was impossible to pay. That was the world that “progressives” like Woodrow Wilson and Neville Chamberlain created using the “League of Nations”.  Germans felt that a strong leader was needed so that the government would be strong enough to take care of the people.  Rather than turning to God, they turned to Adolph Hitler instead.  There you have a very good example of what happens when nations turn away from God.  If you can find one, ask a WW2 survivor how beautiful Germany was at the end of World War 2  Then ask yourself: is that what you want for our future?