For the medical world creating artificial chromosomes is good news. The once deadly diseases that plagued mankind can now be removed from a child's gene pool before the child is born and in a few generations be removed from the world entirely.
However to many future parents the Genome project means nothing more than making human living dolls. Many parents will be able to choose a child's eyes, hair and skin color and even alter the child's personality. By altering human genes during the prenatal stages of pregnancy doctors can reconfigure the baby. Currently doctors are already able to perform gender selection procedures (Williams par. 2). Which means coming soon in a town near you hundreds of identical perfect children will be running around playgrounds with their dirt resistant skin.
Scientist are not 100 percent convinced about the side effects once genetics have been altered. The altering of ones genes not could only might have unpleasant immediate effects of the child in which it is applied to, but might carry dramatic long-term effects as well. Manipulating a child's genetic material might change all of their future ancestry that has yet to even exist. While the ethical questions of genetic engineering are being debated we must realize that not only is this an issue of morals, but an issue of safety for the child .
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and his or her ancestors. Some concerns Scientist have about gene therapy and superficial or imbalanced population in the male to female ratio. 2) Altering ones genes not only affects the child but all succeeding generations. 3) By affecting all of the future people of that bloodline you are permitting the reconfiguration of the human species (Williams par.1).
This means that those babies not yet existing ancestors genes would be reshaped and restructured as well as the actual babies.