Good morning Ms.Howard, members of the opposition and fellow classmates. Today, I will be talking to you about why parents who are carriers of genetic disease should be allowed to have children. I strongly believe that although people carry genetic disease, they should be allowed to have children.

Firstly, not all diseases are passed down onto every child given birth to with parents diagnosed with such diseases. A dominant gene may be transferred from a parent with genetic diseases to some of his/her children. In recessive conditions, both parents with good health but they carry genes that differ from each other that they pass on. In autosomal recessive inheritance, an abnormal gene is required from each parent to cause the disease. Both parents must be carriers in order for the child to have symptoms of genetic diseases. In autosomal dominant inheritance, a single abnormal gene from...