In Which We Discuss Designer Babies

     With all this talk of genetics and what we pass on to our children, you may be curious as to how we can use that to make the 'perfect child'. We can sort of reach that right now actually through the process of Artificial Insemination (A.I). This process takes the sperm cell of a male donor and is medically inserted into the awaiting mother/customer's egg. Alternatively, women can be surrogates (basically an oven on loan for the natural parent's ((or donor)) sperm and egg) and egg donors. 

36.4% of pregnancies happen this way. True fact.

     When looking at sperm donors extensive profiles and features, those in the A.I. program can choose very closely what they want in their child (Blonde hair, green eyes, freckles, musical or sport ability). There is one organization that only takes Nobel Prize winners sperm donations. Now an interview with the mother of one of these Nobel Prize sperms is a dog breeder (which must make big money because I'm sure that sperm is super expensive) and she lives in a small little home with her grown up Nobel Sperm baby. This fairly young man has a high IQ, but appears to have little interest in using it to benefit  the rest of the world. He plays sitar.

Totally not actually the Sperm Boy but really... You're glad you got to see this picture.

     As for the future, scientists would like to justify the altering of baby genes as a way to save our species from fatal illnesses. Though considerably less selfish than designing babies for beauty, we can't just live and let be, LET THERE BE NO MORE DISEASE! Science may be pretty close to this, but that's why we need these things. One day we may be able to perfectly engineer every human being... Buy then how could we be unique?......Well what is science without a little controversy eh?

     People consider genetic altering (and even occasionally A.I.) to be a sin, a way of playing God more or less. In the scientific sense, all that is happening is the placing and moving of different parts of a gene. It's a great concept that can one day remove cancer or awful genetic diseases from our human make-up!