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Designer Baby Debate Introduction During the last 15 years the prospect of designer babies has inevitably been growing. Yet the social expectations of the process and its outcome are still today very unclear. It jeopardises relationships, rather than enhancing them, it raises the prospect of a materialistic society where people are treated as objects that can be changed according to someone else's idea of human perfection. The final goal of reproductive engineering appears to be the manufacture of a human being to suit exact specifications of physical attributes, class, caste, colour and sex. We have already seen how sex-determination has resulted in the elimination of female foetuses in some foreign communities, due to male superiority. DNA Technology vs. Designer Babies During the course of the last fifteen years DNA technology has taken various new turns in its development. DNA is being modified and manufactured to produce genes which can tackle some of the current...

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