Ethical Reflection On Designed Babies

"Designed babies" is the third generation of artificial reproductive technology, different from ordinary test-tube baby, although both are inseparable from the Artificial insemination technique, but the difference is that "test-tube baby" is a large number of embryos for genetic screening. From this concept in people's vision in the beginning of debate on the ethics of the technology has never stopped. States to "designed babies" in a different and even opposite attitude, but overall, still hope, "designed babies" technology can be further developed for the benefit of mankind. Given that the technology has been raised by the ethical issues, the current thinking from the perspective of ethics, ethical principles should be followed and the necessary direction to ensure its proper and rational direction.Paper text is divided into three chapters, on "designed babies" to discuss the ethical issues. The first chapter of "designed babies" status quo of technology, and introduces the "designed babies" technology scientific meaning, summarize States on "designed babies" issue and the current status of development of the technology in medicine, and the main application areas.The second chapter of "designed babies," the major ethical issues faced. First, in the future, "designed babies" technology will not only be limited to the areas of genetic disorders, also be used on appearance, color, intelligence and other aspects to design. People will choose to grasp the initiative to life, that ability is likely to genes of the human lead the error. Second, by "designed babies" technology, artificial selection on the sex of the fetus or cause multiple pregnancy, is on the laws of nature and the environment of damage. Finally, we should also concern the rights of embryos themselves.Third chapter of "designed babies" in the development should be followed ethical principles and orientation. Ethics for the "designed babies" technology healthy, reasonable and orderly development plays a significant role in this issue, that should follow the main Ethical principles: respect for life, the principle of informed consent, safeguarding the interests of future generations for the principle by both sides and each other blind and confidentiality, respect the different interests and maintaining morality subject of the unification of social welfare. To guide the "designed babies" issue toward a direction favorable to human development, it must establish new social ethical concepts, in an effective form of social consensus. And "designed babies" is not only used in the medical field, also in all relevant areas of the technology to strengthen its supervision, to ensure the state in order to continue to develop.