Build+Your+Own+Baby

November 3, 2006
 * ABC News

What would you say to determining if your child will be attractive, athletic or even brilliant?! A major controversy has arisen questioning whether or not it is ethically and morally right to pre-select your baby's genes. Due to the recent success of the Human Genome Project, a map of all the genes in the human body and determination process of which traits are on which chromosomes, scientists have been able to alter specific genes in a fetus by request of the parents. Not only are specific physical traits able to be requested but mental abilities also. These options range from eye and hair color to whether or not your child is a soccer pro! Athletisism, appearance, and school smarts can be crutial to whether or not your child will one day be famous or just another average Joe.

However, science has not guaranteed the outcome will be positive. While determining your child's gender may be fun, there is no guarantee that the gender you selected will be the outcome. Choosing your child's physical abillities could result in disaster and if anything went wrong, there are no ways of assuring a solution to the problem. The plus side is science has come so far it is now able to make a "super baby" by making it resistant to most modern day diseases.

The choice is up to you. Let the gender and abilities of your baby be God's choice or take matters into your own hands. If you happen to have $12,400 lying around, this may be the thing to spend it on.

Olivia Alfredson March 15, 2010 **