an embryo that is deaf

by Karrine Watts

In most families, the parents and children usually have similarities due to genetics and DNA. However, adopted children will not look the same or have the same resemblances as the adoptive parents.
In England there is a married couple. They are a happy couple with a young daughter. The whole family is deaf, even their daughter. Now in their early forties, the couple wants another baby. However, they can not get pregnant naturally. The family wants to use IFV to have a baby. They would select an embryo that is deaf in order to have a deaf child that will fit into their family.
This story is becoming very controversial. Many are saying that it is not fair to purposely have a child with a disability that will not make life easy for him or her. However, the parent’s fight back saying that the child should not be left out of the family and that being deaf is not a disability but a culture.
This couple just wants a baby to be similar to them. It would be difficult for a child to live in a family of deaf parents and sister. However, it is also not fair to the unborn baby to be born with deafness.