Genetic Engineering 3
Science is a creature that continues to evolve at an ever-increasing rate. The transformation from tree shrew, to ape, to human far exceeds the time for the transformation time from an analytical machine, to a calculator, to a computer. However, science, in the past, has always remained distant. Science has allowed advances in production, transportation, and even entertainment; but never in history will science have an affect on our lives, as genetic engineering will undoubtedly do. For the last decade, science has made vast improvements in genetics, monitored by the Human Genome Project. The goal of this organization is to identify and understand the entire genetic constitution. "They have the daunting task of identifying and mapping all of the eighty thousand genes, in human DNA, they are making new discoveries weekly" (Reuterlinkextra). With these discoveries comes many implications, In reviewing the literature genetic engineering needs to be banned because of the social, religious, ethical, and legal implications. The first step to understanding genetic engineering is to know the start of its creation. Genetics achieved its first foothold on the secrets of nature's evolutionary process, when an Austrian Monk named G
The perils of genetic engineering are massive. "To unlock secrets hidden in the chromosomes of human cells is to open up a host of thorny legal, ethical, philosophical, and financial issues. From invasion of privacy and discrimination to the question of whom should play God with man's genes" (Edmen 70)! For centuries, humans have been trying to alter their genetic destiny, in most cases with disastrous results (Greengad 38). The most frightening, are the Nazi atrocities of the 1930s and the 1940s. A period in time; where millions of people were killed because of their genetics. This type of genetic purification is known as "Eugenics-a concept of improving the human race by depriving some people of their reproductive rights" (Reuterlinkextra). If genetic engineering persist, we will be performing a type of eugenics, not by depriving the reproductive rights but by altering the genes of their offspring. If this is allowed to happen, we will see a new crisis much worse than the suppression of the blacks. It will not matter sex, race, or creed but only if you are not genetically ideal. The future will be the high and mighty society of the perfect beings verses the genetically inferior, the invalids. In this society, the genetically altered would be in superior jobs while the invalids will be made to feel inferior and do grunt work. Every person will have a genetic dog tag crammed full of information, With this information about every persons details, you could go to a place to find out whom you are genetically suitable to marry. By having this technology it would make one of Hitler's dreams come true, the perfect human race. Jones,Valerie. "In The Same Boat." The Journal Of American Medical Association. v. 280 n. 17 Nov. 4,1998 pg. 1537. Kighorn, Warren. "Indecision." The Journal Of The American Medical Association. v. 280 n. 17 Nov. 4,1998 pg. 1538. The sex cells are half of the forty-six chromosomes, twenty-three to be exact. In these cells, by random only certain genes are carried by the cells. When the sex cell from a man, sperm, and a sex cell from a woman, an egg, combine their genetic information and a new life is created with the traits from its parents. Every parent wants a healthy child. Until just a few years, ago making a baby was a hit or miss. Parents with the access to the latest genetic engineering can now determine a baby's sex before conception. In a few years, we will be able to know how tall, what body type, hair and eye color, and even their IQ. They will know this information almost right after conception. With this information parents can weed out the genetically unsuitable children, or balance out their family. Procreation is supposed to be a miracle, not like going to the store and tossing out a shirt because it does not go with your pants. These are human lives although they are under the size of a penny. Having your genes screened has its downfalls. There are many psychological impacts. "First there are the emotions of one that is likely to develop a disease. Studies to date show three to six weeks after the screening, the pe
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