{"id":2673,"date":"2006-12-22T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-12-22T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nimsay.blackglass.org\/2006\/12\/22\/made-to-order-babies\/"},"modified":"2006-12-22T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-12-22T16:30:00","slug":"made-to-order-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/?p=2673","title":{"rendered":"made-to-order-babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I saw a movie called <i>Gattaca<\/i>.  It was haunting and prolific.  It posed one simple question; what would society be like if parents could genetically modify their children?  This wasn&#8217;t just about changing a child&#8217;s gender.  The modifications were so intrusive that the new child would be free from disease.  Except this in turn lead to a society where the &quot;modified&quot; were superior to the &quot;unmodified,&quot; and a new class emerged.<br \/>\nIt was a great movie that makes you think.  Science has opened the door to many things, and fortunately it is eradicating some diseases.  But <a href=\"\/%22http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/16299656\/%22\">should it be used to give them<\/a>?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Three percent, or four clinics surveyed, said they have provided the costly, complicated procedure to help families create children with a disability.<br \/>\nSome doctors have denounced the practice; others question whether it\u2019s true. Blogs are abuzz with the news, with armchair critics saying the phenomenon, if real, is taking the concept of designer babies way too far.<br \/>\n\u201cOld fear: designer babies. New fear: deformer babies,\u201d the online magazine Slate wrote, calling it \u201cthe deliberate crippling of children.\u201d<br \/>\nBut the survey also has led to a debate about the definition of \u201cnormal\u201d and inspires a glimpse into deaf and dwarf cultures where many people do not consider themselves disabled.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If families want to have disabled children, then I&#8217;m sure that there are plenty of orphanages and adoption agencies who would be willing to help.  But why oh why would you want to cause a child such grief.  You can&#8217;t shelter them from the teasing, from the discrimination.  And as much as they come to accept that they&#8217;re normal, it will never stop the stares.  Can you prepare them for that?  It&#8217;s downright selfish and cruel.<br \/>\nGenetics shouldn&#8217;t be messed with, period.<br \/>\n<i>Edit:<\/i> The link has been fixed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few years ago I saw a movie called Gattaca. It was haunting and prolific. It posed one simple question; what would society be like if parents could genetically modify their children? This wasn&#8217;t just about changing a child&#8217;s gender. The modifications were so intrusive that the new child would be free from disease. Except [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackglass.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}