#Light skinned black baby skin#
Applying this to the skin colour case, if babies are bred to have fairer skin, could whole populations of darker skinned people begin to disappear?ĭefenders of non-disabled embryo selection reject this eugenic concern. Foremost among them is a concern over being eugenic if we select against disability. However, there are moral arguments – most often raised in the case of disability, but no less relevant in other cases – against these practices.
This goes beyond individual decisions, and looks at the role played by companies which provide embryo, or sperm or egg, selection services, or skin-lightening products, and those legislators who govern such practices.Įmbryo selection: is it ethical? Shutterstock Some moral arguments about selection Whatever the current plausibility of these various interventions, I believe there is a wider socio-political question to ask in these debates. These include picking: the “best” child the child you most want the child that will do the least harm to others or the child that will provide the most benefit to others. While some have suggested that we should not select at all, others have argued we should select embryos in various morally significant ways.
Philosophers have offered some conflicting moral principles to provide direction on whether people looking to have a child via assisted conception technologies should select certain embryos. If there was a diagnostic test for skin tone that could be carried out on embryos, for instance, reproducers could select “this” embryo likely to have fairer skin over “that” one likely to have darker skin. There is even the possibility – however remote at the moment – of genetic selection of embryos for traits such as fair skin. Others in the US using IVF technology have selected egg or sperm donors with light or white skin irrespective of the inaccurate results. In Ghana, some women have reportedly taken a pill to lighten the skin of their foetus despite the questionable science. Some have also tried to lighten the skin of their unborn child with the help of new technologies, whether or not these technologies are effective or safe. Advice to “marry light” is not uncommon in Asian and black families, for example, in order to produce a light-skinned child. The desire for light skin has been extended to children too.
It’s been done through the use of creams, lotions, soaps, folk remedies, and staying out of the sun. Skin lightening is a longstanding practice that occurs in many parts of the world.
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