I heard about this some time last year and didn’t really like what I heard at all. Prospective parents who can choose what their children will look like. One woman who was interviewed, [her identity was protected], said she wanted her child to have blue eyes. I’m not sure if she couldn’t have children, and I think for her that was the case and she was having donated sperms.
The owner of the company who lets parents make these choices said that her clients just want to be parents and she is happy to be able to do this for them.
I wonder how happy they are to ‘just want to be parents’? Because if they were, wouldn’t they just leave it up to nature to develop a healthy child without any interference?
Parents are able to choose the height, color of hair, eyes, sex of the child they want. Is this not in a sense wrong? Or maybe I’m just too critical?!
I just think that if all the parents want to have children who are between 5ft 11inches and 6ft, with blue eyes and blond hair, they are in essence designing the ‘perfect’ child according to what the magazines and Hollywood dictates.
I don’t know if they really sit to think about what they are doing when they make these decisions. I wondered if they were able to choose that the child be healthy, doesn’t have any disabilities and be a whiz in school if they would do it. Perhaps they would then I might agree with them.