human genetic engineering

With science improving everyday nothing is off limits, this includes manipulating an unborn baby to be designed to the parents specifications; although the actual doing-of hasn't been done yet the idea of getting closer is pretty weird. While a major focus lies on the ability to give the fetus a certain eye color, hair color and other aspects of their appearence there's also a big focus on controlling the traits, behavior and intelligence of the child. This then brings up the ethical question about the future of the child and their happiness, knowing that they're not necessarily and individual and got to decide things on their own but that they were "made" a certain way. It also brings up an argument about altering the course of nature and the right or wrong of it. They're saying that if a parent desires a strong, athletic kid messing with the genes can help achieve this.
However, in this article they also discussed some benefits in being able to go in and test for diseases whether they be lifetime or as the individual gets older. In a way of knowing it lets them prepare. My parents went to a genetic doctor to find the chances of both me and my brother getting the osteogenesis imperfecta (which we both did) because it's a dominant gene, that my dad has, that has a 50% chance of getting passed down. I think for cases like this it's acceptable to do whatever "engineering" that can be done to prevent such diseases.
The latest forms of genetic engineering, not just with humans, was dated back to the late 70's, not until the 80's did it reach humans and then stir up the controversy. Obviously since then it's been causing debate and in my opinion I think things like using the term "designer babies" should not be a neccessity. I think that the appearence of a child should just be as is, how it was intended to be, parents already control alot of the aspects of their children's life why take it to the extreme? But to actually use this discovery in a good way would be to test for those genetic diseases and procceed with gene therapy to maybe cure what could've been. Or what they also said in the article, to prepare the indivdual for later in life.

http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/Genetic-Inequality-Human-Genetic-Engineering-768

http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/sepp/2003/07/16/human_genetic_engineering.htm