late-coming R.P. outline (new one!)
Designer Babies—Babies Born out of a Purpose, Not Love
Thesis: With the aid of the advanced technology, people now can turn a dying child into a healthy one. The geneticists can help people select the perfect embryo to become a savior or a cure. However, this is far more complicated than it looks like. There are risks in the procedures, and it also relates to ethical problems and child’s psychology. Therefore, we should not legalize this.
I. Background: Introduction about Designer babies.
A. Summarize the book my sister’s keeper.
B. Define the terms PGD, ESC and IVF.
C. Reasons people go to the geneticists.
II. Risks: There are some risks about the procedures.
A. Provide two real cases and discuss the doubts about how the two cases got their approval of going through the procedures.
1. The Curkowskyj case
2. The Nash case
3. What if the embryo is not the perfect match?
III. Ethical problems: There are many issues about ethical problems of designer babies.
A. Are we trying to play God at this point?
B. There are many genius who are born disable.
C. Those embryos that do not suitable will be discarded or “killed”.
D. Human beings are regarded as commodities.
IV. Child Psychology: maybe we need to take the child psychology into consideration. Oftentimes people put too much attention on the sick child’s illness, but the healthy designer babies might be mentally sick at the same time.
A. The doctor might ask for the donation from the designer baby non-stop in order to cure the sick child.
B. The designer babies are often ignored. The sick child is always the most important one.
V. Conclusion: The birth of designer babies might be the hope of the sick child, but at the same time, we are taking away the designer babies’ right to live, we really need to think about this carefully.
Thesis: With the aid of the advanced technology, people now can turn a dying child into a healthy one. The geneticists can help people select the perfect embryo to become a savior or a cure. However, this is far more complicated than it looks like. There are risks in the procedures, and it also relates to ethical problems and child’s psychology. Therefore, we should not legalize this.
I. Background: Introduction about Designer babies.
A. Summarize the book my sister’s keeper.
B. Define the terms PGD, ESC and IVF.
C. Reasons people go to the geneticists.
II. Risks: There are some risks about the procedures.
A. Provide two real cases and discuss the doubts about how the two cases got their approval of going through the procedures.
1. The Curkowskyj case
2. The Nash case
3. What if the embryo is not the perfect match?
III. Ethical problems: There are many issues about ethical problems of designer babies.
A. Are we trying to play God at this point?
B. There are many genius who are born disable.
C. Those embryos that do not suitable will be discarded or “killed”.
D. Human beings are regarded as commodities.
IV. Child Psychology: maybe we need to take the child psychology into consideration. Oftentimes people put too much attention on the sick child’s illness, but the healthy designer babies might be mentally sick at the same time.
A. The doctor might ask for the donation from the designer baby non-stop in order to cure the sick child.
B. The designer babies are often ignored. The sick child is always the most important one.
V. Conclusion: The birth of designer babies might be the hope of the sick child, but at the same time, we are taking away the designer babies’ right to live, we really need to think about this carefully.
posted by bella at Sunday, March 18, 2007
2 Comments:
Wow, what an organized outline!! So, I surpose that your standpoint is against designer baby because of their human rights, right?
+_+ Sorry. I think I got the answer after seeing your thesis.
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