Reproductive technologies are important because they can help people with deadly diseases.
There has been tremendous progress in medicine and treatment for disorders since gene manipulation started. Not only do living people benefit from reproductive technologies, but unborn babies also benefit from them. When a mother is pregnant, doctors can do tests to see if the baby is healthy and if they will have down syndrome or other genetic disorders. Many times the doctors can manipulate the genes on the fetus to make sure they will not be born with these disorders, but some times, if they cannot fix the problem the mother will have the choice of aborting a fetus. Caring for a child with down syndrome or other genetic disorders can be very expensive and time consuming, for parents who can barely afford a child in the first place, aborting a fetus may be the only and best option for them.