Cancer free designer babies

Discussing designer babies are always very tricky. Endless are the ifs and buts, and every decision has a story of its own. As much as I’ve seen and know what breast cancer can do to women, my feelings are very mixed when it actually comes to creating cancer free children.

Four women with strong family histories of breast cancer are seeking to create embryos without some of the mutations known to cause the disease.
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The women, who do not suffer from fertility problems, will undergo IVF (in-vitro fertilisation) to create test-tube babies free from a gene that would give them up to an 80% likelihood of developing breast cancer later in life.
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Screening embryos for genes that predispose to cancer is more controversial, because there is a chance that the women will not develop the disease. If they do, it would not affect them until their thirties or forties.

In a perfect world there would be no cancer. Period. No suffering. No death. Maybe it then comes natural for a survivor of this awful disease to wish for cancer free babies. No mother wants her child to suffer and if you were given a choice it would more or less be idiotic not to take it.

Still though, in my mind, backbone, faith or whatever it is, something bothers me. This is alerting nature and messing with what is decided at conception. So really should we argue with that? I honestly don’t know.