Research Note Cards by Macie Usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42 Designer Babies en-us 2019-04-22 20:18:59 UTC 2019-04-25 20:43:30 UTC hello@padlet.com Note #1 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353176884 "Others argue that some
applications of genetics are perceived to be
unacceptable because they violate a society’s
religious or moral standards, or are rejected as
not useful to society; other applications might be
useful but they are too risky, while others may
be judged moral, useful and safe but remain
unwanted because those controlling the technology are not to be trusted."
]]> 2019-04-22 20:32:08 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353176884 Note #1 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353176958 Many of the traits that may be able to be changed, may be helpful, but most changes wont do much with how the kid will act.]]> 2019-04-22 20:32:29 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353176958 Science & Ethics macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353176976 "Gene editing of course requires in vitro fertilization (IVF), with its attendant burdens, comparatively low success rates, and possible risks."]]> 2019-04-22 20:32:38 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353176976 Note #2 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178079 "Jurors were concerned with
'welfare of the child'
arguments and claimed that
regulation must endeavor to ensure that parents are unlikely to abuse or in any way discriminate  against  the  designed  child."
]]> 2019-04-22 20:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178079 Note #2 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178127 The only way a child will be different, the parent must raise the child the way they want them to act.]]> 2019-04-22 20:38:28 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178127 Policy & Law macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178158 "It is true that the UK is not a signatory to the latter and the former is not legally binding, although it has powerful moral legitimacy and represents a European consensus that the UK risks breaking."]]> 2019-04-22 20:38:37 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178158 MLA Citation macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178959 Iredale, Rachel, et al. “What Choices Should We Be Able to Make about Designer Babies? A Citizens' Jury of Young People in South Wales.” Health Expectations, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd (10.1111), 8 Aug. 2006, 
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/j.1369-7625.2006.00387.x.]]> 2019-04-22 20:43:07 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353178959 MLA Citation macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353534063 Dickenson, Donna, and Marcy Darnovsky. “Did a Permissive Scientific Culture Encourage the 'CRISPR Babies' Experiment?” Nature News, Nature Publishing Group, 15 Mar. 2019, www.nature.com/articles/s41587-019-0077-3.


]]> 2019-04-23 20:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353534063 Sex Selection macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353535511 The most controversial part of designer babies. The majority of the people who were asked about this topic. 10/14 people were against it and 3/14 weren't sure how they felt. They say it's an interference with a natural process ]]> 2019-04-23 20:22:26 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353535511 Inherited Conditions macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353537455 This was the least controversial of the 3 topics, many people believed that if parents were able to choose to make use of assisted reproductive techniques to prevent serious suffering.]]> 2019-04-23 20:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353537455 Saviour Siblings macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353538658 A majority of the people agreed with this topic as well, due to the fact it is to cure existing children with serious medical conditions.]]> 2019-04-23 20:34:58 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353538658 The Verdict macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353539192 The study with these people showed that they agree with the overall concept, but there are some parts they do not enjoy, but even with the slight disagreement, there is an overall verdict of it being okay due to the benefits it does have.]]> 2019-04-23 20:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353539192 Regulations macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542045 The people who were asked about the topic of 'designer babies' were concerned about the 'welfare of the child' and claimed that regulations must endeavor to ensure that parents do not abuse or discriminate against the designed child. ]]> 2019-04-23 20:49:26 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542045 Main Concerns macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542056 -Many increased social pressures to design.
-Saviour  siblings who failed to save may be rejected.
-People would design babies for selfish reasons
-Eugenics might come to dominate policy.
-Prejudice and discrimination against non-designed babies. ]]> 2019-04-23 20:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542056 10 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542163 This process would be used to help people be able to have children throughout generations.]]> 2019-04-23 20:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542163 Objections macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542197 -Safety
-Possibly harmful side effects
-Is it ethical?]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542197 Ethical? macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542207 "To get our children to be healthy, well mannered, intellectually curious, and well behaved we control what they eat, have them vaccinated, teach them manners, read to them, and discipline them when they misbehave."]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:06 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542207 5 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542209 "No one will ever be able to design a child, that is, determine in advance what talents, skills, abilities, virtues, and vices the child will have."]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:07 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542209 6 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542213 Even though you may be able to change most things about your child, you cannot have complete control over everything, and the child will most likely act like all others and its behavior will not be changed by some slight modification.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542213 7 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542218 A child cannot be forced to do something due to their genetic advancements, so why would changing them to have those advancements change anything.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542218 8 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542222 Changing genetic problems wont make someone better than someone else who already has those specific genes.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:11 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542222 9 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542227 Even if it was meant to benefit a child, it may still cause problems later in the child's life.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:12 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542227 10 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542244 "hyper-parenting" is basically a parent ignoring a child's wants and doing what the parent wants, and it may soon affect the child's entire life, by their parents choosing everything about them before they're even born.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542244 The Nuffield Findings macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542263 "At the Nuffield Council’s 23
July launch conference for the report last year, several members of the working party expressed surprise and displeasure about these characterizations"]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542263 4 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542272 It may create unpredictable and some times large-scale genomic damage, including points far from the target.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542272 5 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542279 Safety concerns, like the mothers welfare are a big problem.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542279 6 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542284 The normalization of in virto fertilization (IVF) would be clinically undesirable  yet it is ignored in the report.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:25 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542284 7 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542293 There is no way to enforce compliance with follow-up studies, due to the alterations that are irreversible.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:27 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542293 8 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542302 Germline gene editing is not approved under international law, and is strongly discouraged.]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542302 9 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542306 Many recommendations about  heritable gene editing, from the statement of the  2015 US
National Academies’ Summit to a recent article in The Lancet, the Nuffield report stresses the need for both international collaboration and “broad public debate.” ]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:30 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542306 10 macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542312 Overall this article says that designer babies are not a good idea, for the mothers health and the child's in the future. ]]> 2019-04-23 20:50:32 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542312 MLA Citation macie_usher https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542548 Steinbock, B. (2019). Designer babies: choosing our children's genes.]]> 2019-04-23 20:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/macie_usher/8pvr3roqca42/wish/353542548