Where the Debate Over "Designer Babies" Began | Retro Report
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- Опубликовано: 19 окт 2024
- Genetic technology is advancing, and critics are warning of a slippery slope. We spoke with the scientists working at the forefront of the research, families who have benefited from the advancements and the first-ever "test-tube" baby to understand the debate.
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I fully believe IVF is a blessing for so many families, but how superficial can you be to care about the color of your child's eyes? Crazy!
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I hope this becomes fully legal especially for families like mine with lots of severe medical conditions that are genetically passed on, I’ve always been afraid of one day having a child of my own because I’m afraid of passing on genes that would make their life painful and more difficult than it needs to be. I don’t look down upon anyone with health problems but I like that science can one day help prevent those from being passed on
thank you I feel like people aren't grasping this. No ones playing god, its a choice option for those who dont want to pass down genetic mutations or mental illness'.
I really don't understand the opposition to "designer" babies. If YOU don't want one, don't have one. Kidney and liver disease runs in my family, I would love to have my kids not have to go through that.
Problem is that people fear that designer babies will create a new upper class and naturally conceived people won't be able to complete with someone who has all the "best" qualities. Also, it kinda just feels like a soft form of eugenics where suddenly blue-eyed blonds are also designed to be at peak fitness and intelligence, thinking long-term. China and India are already dealing with imbalances between men and women as parents had repeatedly preferred boys over girls when deciding which embryo to keep.
I have arthritis, which is limiting even when well medicated, and a genetic predisposition to ovarian cancer - to the point where I have to have a hysterectomy and artificial menopause by 45. I wouldn't wish either on any child I had, especially as a lesbian who may benefit from the potential for all female ivf.
I'm all for allowing people to root out physical genetic diseases, and maybe even in some rare cases allowing them to pick the gender (like say they already have five boys and want one girl), but allowing them to pick physical characteristics like eye color, height, skin tone, etc. is obviously just racist eugenics that is very problematic.
Imagine you go to that doctor and pay 10k to chose the sex of your child an then that child turns out to be transgender
I was born through ivf, parents are lesbians and my dad was a sperm donor
That's not IVF....they just used a turkey bastor
Thanks for another great video!
Thank you for watching!
It should be legal to do this. Children should be allowed to be born without any diseases that will only give them a life of pain. That whole designer babies should be legal as well Eye color and sex will not have that much of an impact in the U.S. however when it comes to physical/mental abilities that’s when the line gets rocky and not allowed.
I will never understand being bothered by something that has nothing to do with me or my life. If we would stop worrying about what other people are doing we would be so much better off. I don't understand banning people from wanting a healthy child if they can afford to do so. Good for them and the baby.
Pretty sure Star Trek voyager predicted this when Torres was going to have her kid
I vividly remember the hoopla, it was just amazing
1:49 where are his gloves?? 😳
LOL seeing my news reporter is so entertaining.
I understand why we would benefit from screening if you and your partner have the gene for a birth defect but it feels wrong to want eye colors or pick genders. The goal should be to have a healthy baby not a baby that is super good looking.
I agree. I think it would be okay to "poke at" the baby/embryo to give it better chances to be healthy and to avoid illnesses that can truly make life hell. Eye color is just too much.
Designer babies are necessary to counter Idiocracy 🤷♂
What type of 14 year old watched about 2/3 of this show. This type.
There are about 16 million living decedents of Genghis Khan. Would editing my baby's genes to have blue or green eyes change it's DNA? Would scientist in 100 or 1,000 years be able to trace my ancestry? Or would my Genes be untraceable with changes in my baby's genetic code? would they still be MY Genes that are passed on? Would I personally consider them MY genes?
Deciding the color of a baby's eyes won't change its DNA. That baby would still be 100% your child.
The process the scientists use to choose eye color is simply activating the gene for blue eyes, rather than the one for brown or green eyes. This outward expression of the genes is called your 'phenotype' i.e. the reason you look different from your siblings, despite sharing the same DNA. Your DNA, the stuff that is in every single one of your cells is called the 'genotype'.
If you want to learn more, I strongly recommend going to Kahn Academy and watching some of their videos of genetics. It is such an interesting subject, and so fun to play around with once you learn to use punnett squares😊
The modifying of a gene in DNA as per preference is still a form of altering DNA and not at all natural. We have all seen that the results can be devastating if we play with natural flow of surroundings
@@coolpcsharma6796 They're changing the DNA expression: the phenotype. They aren't adding or removing anything that isn't already there, just activating something that already exists.
9:42 ooooo did they just say embryos aren’t babies!? Gotcha!
This is GATTACA.
Lg an diepenbeck
LG
pre implantation genetic diagnosis
GATTACA!!!
Yahushua look at mankind's mess, he can never get or do enough, there is no limit to what he will do to alter everything he wants to create while playing god's, this is scary, please fly me a ticket to Mars😵 because that's what our world will be like sooner than later, I pray and hope to be with my heavily father before all HELL breaks loose
Please edit out all the snow flakes born on this planet. That would be a good start.