Predictive Genetic Screening?
Is it ethical to do predictive genetic screening on infants?
Any thoughts?
Answers:
it depends what goal you are trying to accomplish. if you are screening for possible genetic predispositions to conditions so that you could tailor the infant's diet to help reduce some of the risks, i consider it would be reasonable to do so. if you are screening for information to be used to discriminate against the child, ie health insurance or a future living, then it is wrong.
predictive testing to determine whether a child will be disabled pre-nataly with the aspiration of terminating a pregnancy if the child is "abnormal" is absolutely wrong.
i have pretty strong opinion on this and just recently did a presentation/ paper on genetic nouns for one of my classes. feel free to pm me if you want to discuss further.
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Any thoughts?
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it depends what goal you are trying to accomplish. if you are screening for possible genetic predispositions to conditions so that you could tailor the infant's diet to help reduce some of the risks, i consider it would be reasonable to do so. if you are screening for information to be used to discriminate against the child, ie health insurance or a future living, then it is wrong.
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