ASCI 1110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Louise Brown, Designer Baby, Human Reproduction
6 Dec 2016
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Know and control future, story of oedipus. The plague thieves were oedipus lived was hit by a plague as a punishment from a devine. Jocasta hangs herself, oedipus sees her, takes pins off her dress, puts it in his eyes, making himself unable to see. Humans always want to know and explore, we are determined to have an arrogant god like ability which leads to disaster. Ethics of designer babies, in 2004 the oxford dictionary discovered the designer babies. Idea relies on some older science, beginning in the 1970s in vitro fertilization (ivf), first successful persons to fertilize a human egg outside a female, in glass. All actions were noble and good because couples suffer from infertility and their motive was to give children to those who couldn"t produce. At the time, was celebrated and met with unbelievable hostility in others.
