33 - Designer Babies: The Scary Pandora's Box of Genetic Modification

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Dan Cummins

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🗓️ 1 May 2017

⏱️ 61 minutes

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What exactly are designer babies? What plants and animals have scientists already genetically modified? Have any humans been genetically modified? How will genetic modification affect the future of the human race? Find out and get 20% off any purchase at Mackweldon.com by using the promo code TIMESUCK

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0:00.0	As a parent, I can tell you that worrying about the health of your unborn baby can be one
0:05.0	of the most stressful experiences of your entire life.
0:07.6	You instinctively want so badly for them just to be healthy.
0:10.5	Life is going to be hard enough no matter what, and you pray or hope or whatever it is
0:14.2	you do when you're worried over something you have no control of, that they're not going
0:17.7	to start their life with some physical or mental disadvantage.
0:20.8	The moment my son Kyla was born, I instinctively counted his fingers and toes.
0:24.9	Ten.
0:25.9	Thank you.
0:26.9	Do the same for my daughter and Ro.
0:28.4	Ten again?
0:29.4	It's terrifying.
0:31.3	Did the ultrasound miss something?
0:32.3	Are they going to have a hole in their heart?
0:34.2	Are they going to have all their organs, both their eyes, all their chromosomes?
0:37.4	Well, what if these worries were a thing of the past?
0:40.7	What if you knew what kind of kid you were going to have at conception?
0:44.3	New they'd be tall, healthy, intelligent, athletic, free from any and all disease?
0:50.0	Would you give them that gift of certainty if you could?
0:52.7	I bet you wouldn't.
0:53.7	I mean, who wouldn't?
0:55.0	What could be wrong with that scenario?
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