The decision that Charlie’s parents have come up with to use in vitro fertilization to have another child but use new screening techniques to see which embryo will be most able to donate blood-making cells to Charlie has brought along many implications of moral values. This decision of creating another human life with the express intent of saving another life is unethical. The life that is created is just to save another life. How will the child react if he finds out in the future that his role of coming to this world was just to save his brother’s life and that he was not welcomed at all? Think of how he is going to look at Charlie, and how worthless and not respected he may feel all his life.

This has also shown how simply Charlie’s parents treat life and death. Their precious son would simply die from the rare disorder if nothing was done, and so they decided to have another child to save his life. Does it mean that if this second child has another type of rare disorder that no one in the family can save him from, his parents would have to have another child with the required elements to save him then? There is no respect for life at all. This should not be a world whereby humans can just create another life whenever they want to.

The fact that there is genetic manipulation involved and the choosing of desirable characteristics in the embryos is against natural evolution. There should not be any of these in childbirth and if Charlie’s parents truly want another child not just for the sake of saving Charlie’s life, they should not be doing a “trial and error” test to see which embryos turn out desirable and give up those that are not. By doing this, they are indirectly killing the other embryos that already have a life.