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Danielle Britten
English 1301.36
July 6th, 2017
Mr. Everett
Technology Should Not Create Life
If you could hand pick a perfect child, would you take the opportunity? Fairly new
research and operations allow affluent couples the ability to design a baby. The couples are
equipped to build a child through techniques known as IVF (In Vitro Fertilization),
karyomapping, and egg donations. That’s right. (Stylistic Fragment) The human race has created
a non-natural way for life to be born. Human bioengineering through egg donation,
karyomapping, IVF and other procedures should be made completely illegal in the United States
because of the moral, medical, and global problems it will bring in the future. Have we, as
humans, over stepped our boundaries?
The new bioengineering technology does include a few positives that could benefit future
generations. In the article, “First baby born from IVF technique which eliminates inherited
disease” by Sarah Knapton, tells the story of how Lucas Meagu was able to avoid inheriting
muscular dystrophy by using IVF. Lucas was naturally supposed to develop a rare disease and
due to bioengineering technology he dodged a bullet: “To isolate the genes responsible for
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease doctors took DNA swabs from Mrs Meagu, her mother and
Lucas’s father […] They then compared the gene sequences at 300,000 different points of the
chromosomes to work out which section of genetic code was defective and responsible for the
abnormality” (Knapton.) If bioengineering was strictly only used to cut out diseases from human
life, then the technology would be widely accepted. Unfortunately this technology is being used
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by parents who believe they can give their kids the perfect nose, IQ score, hairline, athletic
abilities and more.
First, bioengineering will go against majority of the nation’s morals. When couples
under-go these procedures about 30 embryos are created. After the embryos are created, only a
third of them are implanted. Usually the other 20 are not needed and end up being destroyed.
This action of destruction qualifies as an abortion and since the embryos were intentionally
created, the destruction is then considered murder: “God determined what defines murder. Based
on Scripture, a proper definition would be the willful unjustified killing of an innocent human
being” (Is abortion murder?) Children are intentionally being created, to then be killed. This
form of abortion is significantly different from the regular procedures going on now. Another
part of bioengineering that goes against most people’s morals is the action of bribery. Egg donors
