Genetic Engineering: The Ethics of Customizing your Baby

In 2003, the Human Genome Project, a massive project that scientists decided to undergo that would map out the entirety of the human DNA, was officially completed. Although the HGP has brought forth many new applications to modern science, it also created a whole new set of problems related to it, namely, the idea of genetically modifying a baby to get rid of unwanted genetic diseases, or to change their individual characteristics. In order to resolve this dilemma, I will choose to use the deontological ethical framework, ethical rationalism, and the teleological ethical framework…