Parents: To or Not to Genetically Enhance Children
Abstract
Genetic therapy and genetic enhancement technology are not only developing at a rapid rate, but are also now, as proven by a Chinese scientist’s recent breakthrough, being utilized for unnecessary purposes, reasons beyond disease prevention and treatment. This development both drives society’s concern for ethical use of genetic technology and presents issues that society must immediately address. This work acknowledges the ethical concerns society has regarding genetic enhancement and subsequently analyzes a significant consequence that would come about were said practice implemented. This analysis of genetic enhancement’s morality is carried out from an ethics of care perspective, with a particular focus on genetic enhancement’s power to fundamentally change the parent-child relationship. This work rejects parental imposition of genetic enhancement on future children, regarding such behavior as unethical and immoral.
Faculty Sponsors
Dr. Vicki Toscano
Project Type
Event
Location
Alvin Shermany Library
Start Date
4-5-2019 1:00 PM
End Date
4-5-2019 5:00 PM
Parents: To or Not to Genetically Enhance Children
Alvin Shermany Library
Genetic therapy and genetic enhancement technology are not only developing at a rapid rate, but are also now, as proven by a Chinese scientist’s recent breakthrough, being utilized for unnecessary purposes, reasons beyond disease prevention and treatment. This development both drives society’s concern for ethical use of genetic technology and presents issues that society must immediately address. This work acknowledges the ethical concerns society has regarding genetic enhancement and subsequently analyzes a significant consequence that would come about were said practice implemented. This analysis of genetic enhancement’s morality is carried out from an ethics of care perspective, with a particular focus on genetic enhancement’s power to fundamentally change the parent-child relationship. This work rejects parental imposition of genetic enhancement on future children, regarding such behavior as unethical and immoral.
