Genetically modified babies also known as "designer babies" are babies who are modified according to your wishes and desires into what you want your child to look like. Typically women only use this procedure if they are infertile. Women decide what hair, eye color or sex of the baby they have this procedure done. In this essay I will explain how they are made, the different religious debates about them and why you shouldn't do it. Genetic engineering allows infertile women with genetic defects in the mitochondria to have children. How are they made? The procedure known as oplasmic transfer is used to inject mitochondria from the donor egg into the egg of the infertile woman, during which in vitro fertilization is performed on the egg. Healthy eggs from a second mother are used, and the first mother then provides the 23 chromosomes, which contain most of the baby's genetic information. While the second mother contributes the mitochondrial genome; the child produced in this way has genetic information from two mothers (the donor and the normal mother) and from the single donor father. Researchers have already linked striped zebrafish genes, which control the fish's color, to human genes that determine skin color. This is how they discovered they could design humans. “Designer Babies” use genetic engineering techniques to create a child's desired traits, such as disease resistance, gender, hair color, height and other aesthetic traits, athletic ability, or intelligence. So, in other words, if you want a little girl who is 6.7 inches tall, with red hair and is very intelligent or very athletic or even both, you can use genetic engineering to do it. Genetic engineering has also helped stop family diseases and unwanted families... middle of paper... from being the only ones left with the diseases that genetic engineering has helped eliminate. Finally, I believe in the Christian view that they are against genetic engineering. I agree with the opinion that they are trying to pay God like this: "Only God has the right to interfere with our genes." So, in my final conclusion, I think it is wrong to use genetic engineering, but somehow it has its advantages. We should only use it to help cure diseases, but not only for those who can afford it, but also for everyone. I think you're trying to play God honestly. I don't think you should tamper with your genetic makeup. Works cited "100% Gender Selection Sex Selection Program." Sex selection program with 100% gender selection. The Fertility Institutes, 2001. Web. 23 October 2013."Designer Baby." Dow Jones & Company, 2013. Web. 24 October. 2013.