My neighbor some few years back, my neighbor gave birth to a baby, and that was my very first time of holding one immediately he/she was born, I was the most disturbed person that day, her husband was out of town, I could have drived her car, but I couldn't, I was battling some surgery pain that day, well, I did my best and found her a taxi, but I couldn't let her go alone, I had to follow her.
We didn't really go to a hospital, we went to a nurses house, I very well remember that day, I just had to be strong, I was almost crying myself, she gave birth right there while holding on to me, so that was the first time I would be holding a baby immediately immediately after birth. She was a newborn, I guess that was why she curled her fingers around mine, and that melted something in me, she wasn't mine though.
It was very late in the night, but there was light, I looked at her closely, she had a big birthmark under her eye, it was later the mother told me it ran in their family, I never looked at her that much so I never noticed, well, the mother had it too, just that hers wasn't so big and obvious, she said that's how almost all the female children do have it, its that GOD signed/marked our faces, it was a little confusing, but who am I to challenge the creator, you all marry into different families, so as a woman why should this still continue, but GOD works in mysterious ways. one her mother said ran in their family.
So, when I saw this question about designing tthe perfect baby, the image of that tiny, imperfectly perfect baby came to my mind, it felt like yesterday, the truth is we are all born into both privilege and pain, so the idea about a perfect baby is both terrifying and fascinating.
So are we saying being able to walk into a clinic and be able to pick a child skin color, height, IQ level, creativity, and all, we tell the healthcare personnel we want a child who sings like Justin, has a skin like milk, tall like a storey building, intelligent like Elon, writes like Shakespeare and all, then you add that, this baby won't have any medical challenge, no sickle cell, mo autism, no stuttering and all...how does this all sound, does it sound perfect, babies aren't phone to be built or customized, humans are different, what do you think would become of a world of such possibilities, aside that, what happens to uniqueness?
Sincerely, if this option were available, a lot of people would fo for it, while little would allow the child be unique in his/her own special way. I have seen families weep over diagnoses, I have seen how mothers are being blamed for children born different. So I understand why that option would tempt many or tell me, who wouldn't want to spare their child the pain of a body that battles itself, who wouldn't want to save themselves the stress of crying, spending and going about on a child who's battling an illness, we would all want too rewrite fate if possible.
But, is perfection really that which we call it, also, am I allowed to say that perfection is a myth. I’ve seen children with some kind of syndrome still dance with joy, they light up wherever they are, I have seen a stammerer who is now a very well known poet, I have heard of a blind man who is very good in drawing, how is that even possible, but that uniqueness of theirs makes talent stand out. Personally I believe there would be nothing like humanity if all the things we consider as flaws are being removed and there would be no need for empathy since no one is struggling.
There's always beauty in broken things, even though pain is cruel and not easy to bear, it is still that which help shape purpose. So come to think of it, if every difference, defect and every difficulty were to be erased, then life wouldn't matter, or tell me, whose stories would we hear, none, cause we've erased the very thing that life thrives on, we've erased the very stories that make life matter.
And about maybe it is ethnical to modify babies, for science it may be a yes, but from a human point of view, I see that as us trying to play GOD. If it were to be so perfect, then parent's wouldn't need to nurture, teach kr even love their child, you've already modified what you want before birth and that is what he/she is going to grow up to be.
For me, I don’t want a perfect baby, I want a real one, unique in his or her own way. One with dreams, maybe genius, maybe not, but one who's special in his/her own kind of way.
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