The California Biomedical Research Association states that nearly every medical breakthrough in the last 100 years has resulted directly from research using animals.

- Animal testing is crucial to ensure that vaccines are safe.

Scientists racing to develop a vaccine for coronavirus during the 2020 global pandemic needed to test on genetically modified mice to ensure that the vaccine doesn’t make the virus worse or causes any health problem. Without animals, vaccines wouldn´t have been proven safe.

- Animals are appropriate research subjects because they are similar to human beings in many ways.

Chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA with humans, and mice are 98% genetically similar to humans.

- The vast majority of biologists and several of the largest biomedical and health organizations in the world endorse animal testing.

A poll of 3,748 scientists by the Pew Research Center found that 89% favored the use of animals in scientific research

CONS:

- Animal testing is cruel and inhumane.

According to Humane Society International, animals used in experiments are commonly subjected to force feeding, food and water deprivation, the infliction of burns and other wounds to study the healing process

- Scientists are able to test vaccines on humans volunteers.

Unlike animals used for research, humans are able to give consent to be used in testing and are a viable option when the need arises

- Animal tests do not reliably predict results in human beings.

94% of drugs that pass animal tests fail in human clinical trials.

- Most experiments involving animals are flawed, wasting the lives of the animal subjects.

A peer-reviewed study found serious flaws in the majority of publicly funded US and UK animal studies using rodents and primates: “only 59% of the studies stated the hypothesis or objective of the study and the number and characteristics of the animals used.” 

-Obtain a variety of vegetables and fruits each day

-Helps to reduce the risk of cardiovascular, heart disease and improve blood sugar levels

-Greater feelings of satiety (fullness) and sustained energy levels

CONS
-Vegans have more trouble achieving protein needs without using protein supplements

-Potential Nutritional Deficiency (b12, zinc, Iron, omega 3…)

-Vegan diets can be expensive

-Many women resign from high positions because they need more time for their families 
Although very promising, senior positions are also very demanding and time consuming. Responding to their maternal instincts, many women choose to spend a substantial portion of their time with their children and family, and do not aspire to high positions for fear that such positions will take up too much of their time. As a result, the number of women aspiring to top positions contrasts sharply with the number of their male counterparts.

-Parents, when having a child, assume the responsibility of their actions as well that the children, so the attitudes that children have should also affect them

-If the parents are not sanctioned, they will hardly realise the extent of the problem caused by the child, for example if a child breaks a container and his father is punished with a fine of €200, he will take care of the payment of the container and then adequately punish his child, such as interrupting his leisure activities

-Sometimes the sanctions applied to parents serve to make them reflect on the ways and methods with which they are educating their children

AGAINST 

-Parents should not always be punished because children can have attitudes that respond to the social environment

-In addition, they should not always be punished because children do not always respond the way they are educated

-They should not always be punished because there is so much information that children receive from society and the media that they do not respect family values. For example, if the child is part of a home without violence, he can commit violent acts because they see them in other children, in the media, in movies....

-We can have the opportunity to change or improve some part of our body. On the other hand, if the advertisement of plastic surgeries were illegal, people who are self-conscious or have low self-esteem because they do not like their physique would live their whole life repressed or ashamed because they would not know how to find a way to do it.

- There would be a great possibility of people going to an unauthorized surgery center, which would become a dangerous situation for their health.

-The publicity sells us that, with surgery, you are going to become the person you want to be, when obviously this is not possibl, because we are only changing the exterior.

-Some ads can be misleading, showing a good clinic, which guarantees the safety of the client and gives us our desired results, when sometimes it's not the thruth.

It is a fact of life that sometimes parents are disappointed with the gender of their children. This is true, for example, when they already have six sons but want a daughter. Guaranteeing (or improving the chances of) a child being of the gender they want means that the child is more likely to fit into the family’s dreams. He or she is, bluntly, more likely to be loved.

Talk of designer babies is scaremongering nonsense. All babies are, to some extent, designed. Individuals do not procreate randomly: they choose their partners, and often choose the time of conception according to their own age and prosperity. Parents give so much to children. They invest years of their lives and a large amount of their earnings in their upbringing. Isn’t it fair that in return, they get to decide something like this if they want to? This is an extension of reproductive rights.

No because…
Children are not toys. They are not meant to be designed to specifications most convenient to the ‘owner’. This is an extension of the consumer society. If we allow parents to choose gender, soon they will want to choose eye colour, or hair colour. That is only the beginning. We are encouraging false ideas of ‘perfection’. However, since there’s no justification for allowing such indulgence at public, the divide will grow ever-larger between rich and poor, as the rich tailor not only their clothes and belongings to reflect their wealth, but also the bodies of their children. If a ‘gay gene’ is discovered, would parents be permitted to weed out embryos with it, using the technology this proposal would condone? We really should be encouraging the idea that when it comes to children, you get what you are given – otherwise, people will demand more ability to change their kids, and be more likely to reject their own child when they don’t get exactly what they want…