The article I have chosen, entitled "Designer People", covers the issues of designer babies and the melding of man and
machine. Both of these issues are very controversial and the article contains arguments for each side in the two topics.
Designer babies are a new "fad" that may be up and coming if a ban is not enforced and put on it. Other countries have
already done so. The concept of designer babies is that parents will be able to buy genes for their children so that they won't
be fat or have disabling diseases. Parents would be able to select the genes that would help their child but they would also be
able to pick their children's hair color, eye color, IQ and more. Scientists may even be able to add in animal genes to give the
child better eyesight or a better sense of smell. If no ban is put on this kind of experimentation, there may be more and more
things that they can do. By the year 2400, they believe that there will be two species of humans, due to many generations of
gene selection. There would be "Naturals", children who have not had gene alteration, in other words normal children, and then
there would be "Gene-enriched" children who would have had gene alteration and would also have forty eight chromosones
instead of the normal forty six. These two different "species" would not be able to mate, just as a cat and dog cannot. Parents
unable to afford this procedure, expected to be possible within the next few decades or so, would be relegated to second class
citizenship. The research behind this procedure as well as the research behind creating a human from scratch, is funded for by
taxpayers. The budgeted cost of these scientific studies and experiments is three billion dollars, all which belongs to taxpayers.
The identification of the 3.2 billion chemical letters located on the DNA is needed to make the proteins that make up the human
body. After fifteen years...