Science has been evolving more and more rapidly recently. Not long ago, the newest discovery was the fact that genes were passed down from parents to offspring. Now, with new technology and knowledge, changing someone's DNA is possible. My debate topic is whether or not parents should be able to change the DNA of their children.
I don't think that it should be possible for parents to change their child's DNA. It is immoral for this to happen to children even when they are still in their mother's womb and haven't developed yet. When this baby is born, the child is the one who will have to live with the changes that were made in them; things that the child may not have wanted from their parents and still have to live with it for the rest of their lives. The child doesn't have a say in the things that his or her parents decide to change about him or her, but this child is the one who has to live with the changes they are forced to endure the choices that their parents made for them whether they are beneficial or not in their lives.
Yes, the changing of a child's DNA can result in something better like stopping a child from having cancer, but if something goes wrong, it would be devastating to the child. If modifying DNA should be allowed, it should only be for curing diseases, but at the moment, the technology to be sure that the child would be okay and the results are the same as the intended purpose.
Technically, changing a person's DNA and inserting the things you would want in them has a lot to do with the controversies of Stem Cell Researching. Of course, it depends on how you see it as being moral or immoral and where the actual new cells are coming form. If the cells are coming from an embryo, is it a human or is it not? Is it murder or is it not? I think it is because that embryo they had to kill to take the cells from can grow up to be someone and you take the chance of life away from that person. In my opinion, killing an embryo is like killing a person.
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