Bayi Tabung / in vitro fertilization

Imagine that you can choose what your brother or sister would look like. Imagine if you could choose your child's eye color, hair color, IQ level, and even his interests. Imagine a world where everyone is perfectly healthy and wise IQ-wise.

This seems like a scene from a science fiction movie? Well, it might be possible in the near future to the promotion of preimplantation genetic diagnosis or PGD. PGD is a procedure in which the embryo is genetically tested to be free of the disease and then implanted in the mother using invitro fertilization (IVF).

Parents can now choose to have the ultimate child who excelled in both studies and sports. We all got a glimpse of IPRs in the 1997 film Gattaca where genetic engineering and IVF enabled engineering children, including factors such as gender, intelligence, life and even eliminate several genetic and hereditary diseases.

However, the DPI does not exist only in science fiction films. In fact, the DPI continues to develop in an exciting technology with the incredible potential to increase women's opportunities and not just a healthy pregnancy, but a healthy infant as well.

The DPI has been made famous by Dr. Jeffrey Nisker, the University of Ontario. He launched the IPR, and was the first person in Canada to offer such a procedure revolutionary engineering manually embryos. Since then, he has stopped its program and closed down due to overwhelming requests from across Canada to access PGD, not to avoid serious genetic conditions for sex selection, but above all to avoid having a daughter.

It is against its concern and belief that all children should be cherished, regardless of their sex. Among the cases in which the DPI was made, when a couple needed the procedure of having a baby with the right genetic makeup to save the life of their son. Leanne and Stephen needed the procedure to save their first-born, BJ, who suffers from a rare genetic disease, Hyper IGM. BJ is missing a vital part of his immune system and survives only through blood transfusions regularly.

The child needs to be free of disease and of the same sex as BJ, only then they can be assured that the tissue can be transplanted to the newborn BJ. The procedure is long and tedious with Leanne and Stephen go through a roller coaster of emotions that the fertilized eggs are extracted and then sent for testing.

After a few rounds missing, Leanne and Stephen made a hit and the embryo was transplanted into Leanne. Soon, their baby will arrive, bringing aid and hope to his older brother and parents! The DPI has nevertheless raised some ethical concerns of society, especially with regard to its potential and who should decide how to use this revolutionary new technology.

The procedure allows parents to determine the sex of the embryo, and thus can be used to select the sex of an embryo, preferably to another within the framework of "family balancing".

The company also raised the issue of doctors and scientific "playing God", which interferes with the natural shape of the design can have a major impact on our planet in the future.

By: Michael Russell