"Designer Babies"

The term "Designer babies"has become a trending answer to many people today. Designer babies are perfect embryos changed into the ideal baby that is created in your needs. Parents ask themselves, "Should we go for the brown haired with blue eyes? Tall or short? Funny or clever? Girl or boy? And with all that should we make him/her into a muscle-bound sports hero? Or an innocent and smart book worm?" In my opinion this is so stupid! Babies are supposed to be created from their parents' genes and past hereditary and not from genetic processes into their bodies. You should be able to accept the characteristics of your daughter or son that God has given to them, and not change their whole figure for your own sake.

This designer baby with her Blue Eyes

However, on the other hand I find it pretty neat to be able to check before hand if your child has a certain disease-bearing gene. I believe in supporting the use of allowing couples at risk to have healthy children. Any parent would want to check if their children is alright and well (I know for a fact I would) So when they use this system for the positive, it's only right! Nevertheless when parents use this system for non-medical purposes and for the point to change cosmetic aspect, that's when I think it isn't needed. If we continue to use this system I think our world will get brainwashed into always being perfect and would want their kids to be the perfect of them all, when in actual fact we should all accept flaws because that's life and that's how we live. You never know how your daughter or son could look like after going through the process of cosmetic procedure.

Having a cosmetic designer baby could result in your child having certain diseases in their future life. You never know what they put in your babies' bodies to change their characteristics. Your child's future baby may lose genetic variability and may even increase the chance for their own kids to get some kind of genetic diseases. Your parents may like the method of "Designing your baby" but what happens if you get affected by it in the future? You never know what could happen. Technology is getting more and more advanced til the day. I believe designing your baby isn't what God would want in the Catholic Faith. Your kids should be made from your own previous genes, and not from fake features.

REFERENCES:

http://articles.cnn.com/2008-10-30/tech/designer.babies_1_genetic-screening-designer-babies-animal-embryos?_s=PM:TECH
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/03/earlyshow/health/main4840346.shtml

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4840229n

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Eight year old receives WWF-Philippines award for dolphin rescue

Humans are shown to be very persistent when it comes to our environment. Us humans seem, to take advantage of our beautiful world that we have by polluting and/or littering, etc!

But on the other hand there are many organizations today trying to help these causes. One very significant organization is WWF (World Wildlife Fund). This organization is one of the world's largest well known independent conservation that is helping the world wildlife within 90 offices in 40 countries each and everyday all over the world.

WWF’s Johnjoe Cantos poses with Carl Andrei Leuterio, WWF’s youngest Hero of the Environment thus far.

A great article I found was about a 3 Filipinos together with a young eight year old boy named Carl Andrei Leuterio receiving the WWF Hero of Environment awards in San Teodoro, Philippines. They had obtained this award because of their courageous behavior of saving a stranded dolphin that couldn't save itself. In a heavy rain fall, the 2.5-meter long Risso’s dolphin (Grampus griseus) was found floating by the shoreline in the early afternoon on September 2. The poor dolphin looked very weak, and had noticeably red eyes with heavy skin irritations. The 3 guys quickly called the Philippine civilian fisheries patrol and they rushed to arrive on the scene. Within 3 hours the dolphin was all better and safely released back into the deep waters.

The 2.5 meter Risso’s Dolphin was slowly coaxed off into deeper waters. It swam off unharmed. Barangay San Teodoro. 2 September 2010.

The actions of Carl, Terence and Jacinto brought so much honour to the Philippines. It really showed who the true leaders were. While dolphins are getting killed in other parts of the world, these 3 heroes chose to do the right thing! There are so many people that ignore news like this. It really showed the true colours of these 3 young men. Many animals are endangered or are getting killed by countless problems today. We really need to take a look at what's really happening in our world and try to help whenever needed! It could of been any other animal other than a dolphin that was suffering. We all need to just realize that these animals are living things too, and we should respect that. I really admire and awknowledge the little boy that tried to help. There are grown men out there who wouldn't even care. I'm happy for the 3 boys that got awknowledged by WWE for their great work. WWE is a very great organization that is trying to help world wildlife all over the world!

References:
http://wwf.panda.org/wwf_news/news/?194950/Eight-year-old-receives-WWF-Philippines-award-for-dolphin-rescue
http://wwf.panda.org/who_we_are/
http://assets.panda.org/img/new_heroes_by_wwf_philippines_crop_329688.jpg
http://assets.panda.org/img/rissos_dolphin_rescue_by_the_mindoro_provincial_agricultural_office__2__329647.jpg

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