Research Question

How does the ability to choose genetic characteristics for babies lead to new forms of separation because of appearance and class?

I will need to find out more examples of people who have actually created designer babies and why they did it and how it impacted people around them. I can delve further into the Universal Declaration on the Human Genome and Human Rights, which will be a good tool for me to research off of because it brings up many good points that will help with topics I can research further. I'm going to talk about if it is unfair that wealthy people have more money to make designer babies while the rest of people don't have access to choosing their child's traits. Also, if certain genes are genetic and are unwanted such as obesity, is it ethically right for people to eliminate obesity from society by changing their kid's genes.   

Exam Research

I think I am interested in researching science and human rights. I'm not sure exactly what about, but it could be something like how scientists influence human rights and what their roles are.  To what extent do your rights go and how far can scientists go? (Stem cell research, designer babies) This is a question of ethics and how far people should exercise their rights and when something is right and when it is an abuse of technology. Could the ability to "design" babies lead to new forms of discrimination? When are the parents violating human rights by doing stem cell research or making designer babies? When are the scientists violating rights? This weekend I went to the Made in India movie and there were some interesting points brought up during that too about surrogate mothers and health care and womens rights in India. I'm not so sure that is the route I want to go because I would like to further research about genetics, designer babies, and stem cell research because I find those topics very fascinating and think they would be an interesting topic to pursue further.

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/government/87/8734gov2.html
http://www.law.harvard.edu/students/orgs/hrj/iss17/booknotes-Science.shtml
http://www.unesco.org/bpi/eng/unescopress/2001/01-90e.shtml