arlier, gene information may be used to predict sensitivities to various industrial and environmental agents. “The damages of misuse and the potential of personal threats to the personal privacy should not be taken lightly. (to know ourselves. U. S. dept. of health) “Gene transfer should never be undertaken in an attempt to enhance of improve human beings… Somatic cell enhancements engineering would threaten important life values in two ways: it could be medically hazardous, in that risks could exceed the potential benefits and the procedure therefore could cause harm.
And it could be morally precarious, in that it would require moral decisions our society is not now ready to make, and it could lead to an increase in inequality and discriminatory practices. (Genet s and Human Malleability. French Heanderson 2-1990) Using the information provided by Human Genome Project (HGP), a person’s history of Genetic Disorder, insurance will refuse to give him insurance coverage. “Only you have your combination of looks, personality, and behavior. As the saying goes, they bro the mold when you were made! There is no one in the world exactly like you. ” (YOUR GENES, YOUR CHOICES. Bateer). Would like to have someone just like you created artificially? Someone who thinks and acts like you?
What if you have the same interests and have conflicts? Having two of the same person, one being of a laboratory birth is certainly going to unbalance nature. Who has the right to know about the info gained by HGP, when he or she goes for genetic testing? Does a girl at the age of 10 have to know that she has Huntington’s disease? For one second, one might think she is happy and needs to know this information, so she can make important decisions ahead of time. But the fact is she cannot know ahead of time. How will she react to the test results?
She might be too young to cope with it. Also keeping this information secret is hard. If the insurance companies found out about the information they will deny her coverage in their policies. Also to get this information the girl needs to go through extensive testing, and a Genetic Linkage study, which involves the girl to ask most of her relatives multiple questions, which could be a heavy burden on her. Genetic Information leads to a lot of discrimination. Using HGP, people can produce the “perfect” baby.
If a family, especially countries where females are of a lesser importance then males, found out that the child they are about to have is a female, t n they would have an abortion, which is taking a life away. In the future people can use HGP to change physical and mental states of a newborn baby. They could make it taller, stronger, smarter, change the skin tone, the eye color and hair color, possibilities are endless. But if everyone were to do this there will be no balance. They can bring the dead back to life by using their DNA of the dead, and put it into a newborn.
This is not good, if someone of harmful intentions decides to bring someone like Hitler back to life. Genetic testing is not 100% accurate. The probability of erroneous results from a genetic test is small but not zero, false-positive or false-negative results can occur because of technical abnormalities or human error. Some Tests suggest that Cystic Fribrosis cannot detect all of the mutations associated with the disorders. So where is the billions of dollars of funding going into? The Human Genome Project and DNA cloning is a weapon aimed for total destruction of mankind.
Just like the atom bomb, created for national security, yet once dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, by the United States of America, caused the lose of thousands of innocent lives and hundreds to follow by mutilations due to the aftermath and the radiation. If HGP is not restricted now, it will have a more negative impact on the world then a positive one. It might be used to create a “super” race. Man cannot and should not play god by trying to create life the way they want it, leave god’s job to him.