OPINION: Mandatory Genetic Testing isn't Eugenics, it's Smart Science

By Jacob M Appel , Bioethicist and Author - March 04, 2009

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When physicians at University College in London last month announced the birth of what they described as the world's first "breast-cancer gene-free baby," a designer infant pre-screened for the BRCA1 cancer gene, critics focused public debate on the question of whether or not such screening should be permitted. Yet as genetic screening becomes increasingly routine, it is the opposite question that will likely raise far more ethical challenges: If pre-implantation genetic diagnosis during in ... Read the Full Article
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  • rhtaylor
    PGD does not cure disease

    You talk about pre-implantation genetic diagnosis like it cures disease in children. It doesn't. It just gets rid of the children with the disease. How about instead of spending money on mandatory genetic testing that just eliminates the people with the disease, we spend that money on finding a CURE.

    - rhtaylorUS March 6, 2009 9:48AM

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