The Ethical Reflection Of Designer Babies Technology

The designer babies technology has been accompanied by a lot of controversy since its birth.With the development of the times and the progress of society,the technology will carry more historical missions.It has been developing for almost three decades,the designer babies technology is more open and free to use in some developed countries,yet it is still in budding state in China.As a cutting edge technology of assisted reproductive technology,designer babies technology has caused widespread controversy.As gene editing techniques,it overcomes many medical problems,such as treating for infertility,reducing birth rate of defective infants,meeting demands on the fetus sex and specific traits and saving genetic disease of the same flesh and blood.It embodies rich bioethical values,including the values of existence of life,the quality of life,the value of life and society.Such as protecting the embryo,reducing abortion and infanticide as well as birth defects,promoting better pre-natal care,improving the index of a family's happiness and population quality.It can prevent the occurrence of diseases by screening for fatal or harmful genes,treat infertility and infants suffering from severe genetic diseases,and design perfect babies to produce offsprings as they wished.When the state relaxes the two-child policy,under the issue of reducing birth defects and improving the quality of the population,people are surprised at the great benefits,while panic in its technical consequences of moral ethics.How to make the technology reasonably becomes the purpose and significance of this paper.At the same time,designer babies technology involves several ethical problems such as embryonic status and dignity,human genius and fairness,autonomy and teleonomy.Designer babies technology may produce bad effects,such as the risk of genetic gene therapy,the uncertainty of gene-related traits,the ambiguity of the definition of responsible subjects,and the restrictions on human evolutionary trends.The technical consequences of social inequality mainly include three aspects: gene optimization and enhancement,and unfairness of HLA rescuers' compatriots,and discrimination with disclosure of genetic information.Designer babies technology has ethical risks,such as disregarding human dignity,fairness and justice,and violating human goals and autonomy.These are the risks and challenges of designing babies technology to bring us.We need to pay more attention and guard against the application of technology.There are some value guide needed in developing the designer babies technology,it puts forward to ensuring the safety in practice,creating a scientific and humanistic environment for the rational use of embryos,respecting individual dignity based on health goals,and creating an innovation concept with inclusive atmosphere for the designer babies technology.We should standardize the responsibility of science,treat the application of technology fairly and do not violate human dignity,and guide people to adopt a rational and technical attitude.Finally,we put forward the corresponding path of ethical protocol for the social challenge and ethical risk of the technology.We discussed the following aspects: improving the government regulation and updating timely,increasing investment in medical ethics,strengthening the ethical supervision of medical workers' behaviors,popularizing ethics committee and the system of genetic counseling,and giving play to the role of media guidance.Working together to make the new technology to adapt to the new national conditions,only in this way can we develop the designer babies technology rationally and orderly.