Brave New World Part 1

The future in medicine and the health care field is changing with every big innovation/invention that can improve the way we do things in the health industry. Cloning is one of the major technologies that is big on the radar with huge potential for its patients. When this new technology comes into practice, it will raise many questions and ethical problems. I think that cloning should be limited to therapeutic cloning and restricted to growing organs that would help patients who are in dire need of transplants. With every attempt or try to clone an object, uses an embryo, which is another moral road block for some people. We shouldn't be throwing away embryos just to try to grow new ears just because people think theirs are too big. It's just a big waste of time and resources and therefore should only be used for actual needs not wants like the lady in the movie who had no options for a kidney transplant. Once we start incorporating cloning in our every day lives such as in the food we eat, we are changing the human race. Our knowledge is very limited in the field so why should we take the chance by making a mistake and it ending up effecting millions of Americans due to a few scientists lack of knowledge on the effects. Sure cloning may look good now and seemingly have no side effects, but what about 20 years down the road, when genetics problems might show up and effect our children because they have been eating this genetically modified chicken and effect their children. There is just no predicting what will happen when cloning takes over our lives and the effect it will have on us.

            Next to cloning, designer babies are also another technology that is causing moral problems. I understand the desire for parents who have a long history of certain conditions that they don't want to pass down to their children, but who make the decisions of what will be done. Who will decide if two parents want their child to bad vision and their child turns out to have super vision, better than the average human. These little modifications to our children will change the way our society works and will have major problems down the road. Once the doors open for general designer babies, such as eye color and height, people will want to take it all the way, and design their children's interests and other things that would control exactly how their child will act. All of these things go too far and are not necessary and would cause lots of social issues down the road.