The differences in the population that make us unique will be lost

Babies will be created to help save other people with blood donations, etc. For example, Adam Nash, the first known designer baby, was created to help save his sisters life. It isn't right for babies to be created for the sole purpose of saving another.

If everybody is beautiful, then NOBODY is... Same as if everyone is rich nobody is!

It will affect biodiversity when used for cosmetic purposes. Certain traits will become more desirable, if they aren't already.

It could create a bigger difference between classes: Rich can afford genetic modification while poor cannot afford the technology.

In my opinion, creating designer babies is not ethically or morally right. The traits and qualities of a genetically altered baby are predetermined by their parents, this may not be what the child would want. This process reduces the child’s ability to choose their interests. For example, a deaf couple from the US, Sharon Duchesneau and Candy McCullough, used the technology to create a deaf baby. This baby could have been able to hear, but due to the genetic alterations requested by the baby's parents, was not given the ability.

There are too many problems associated with designer babies, one being that many people believe that parents of designer babies are “playing God”. By altering a baby’s personality, looks, and characteristics, all individuality in the world will be gone.

A child's freedom to choose what they want in life will be limited tremendously as their parents will be able to make decisions for them as to how they look and their capabilities.

Mutations may occur that could lead to new diseases and viruses that could potentially put babies into more danger or harm. We never know what may happen with this new process.

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The creation of "designer babies" is a slippery slope. It will start as a way to eliminate genetic disease, a good thing. However, people WILL use it for cosmetic, racial "purity" or homophobic reasons. It could create an underclass of those who are not genetically modified.

I am prolife. Every life is precious .

designer babies not only will allow mankind to lose the essence of who we are, imperfect, but also will make way for more moral issues to erupt. for example, when engineering a designer baby, the genetic make up of the babies can be changed. who's to say one day we won't be bringing these designer babies and carrying them around like fashion accessories!?! if we can change the genetic make up, altering the alleles that affect the way people look, the same way we can decide if we want a nike shoe or an adidas, than are we not reducing the way we each look, individually, to that of mere products?

it's true that this form of genetic modification can reduce risk of birth defects, but in nature, in natural selection itself, survival of the fittest has always and should always be in place. designer babies will also cause a population boom worldwide. so no, i stand firmly against designer babies. It lowers the standard of our population and will cause other both ethical and physical issues in our world.

Widespread implementation will lead to conformity in the population

Babies will be created to satisfy the accepted stereotypes of what is said to be desired. As we can see now, majority of people try to go along with stereotypes and what is considered to be "normal". It is "normal" to want to fit in. People will create babies that "fit in" with what is accepted.

Genetic Modification goes against many religions that people subscribe to, especially Catholicism.

Gender discrimination would increase because in many countries, males are favored over females.

It could also cause parents to choose certain disabilities for their kids to have, which can be wrong on so many levels.

We never know when a certain mutation could lead to a new virus or disease.