Category Archives: Genetic Testing
The New Eugenics: Engineering “Moral Enhancement” by embryo screening and selective abortion
By Richard Weikart Recently Oxford philosophy professor Julian Savulescu moved his campaign for “moral enhancement”
NBC’s Nancy Snyderman: It’s ‘Pro-Science’ to Abort Children With Genetic Defects
By Kyle Drennen Editor’s note. This appeared last week at http://newsbusters.org/blogs/kyle-drennen/2012/06/08/nbcs-snyderman-its-pro-science-abort-children-genetic-defects and is reprinted with permission.
New Test opens “Pandora’s Box”
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written two stories about a very important topic—a new noninvasive procedure that may allow women someday to test
Are IVF clinics hiding the risks of PGD from parents?
By Michael Cook Editor’s note. This appeared at www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10017 and is reprinted with permission. American couples who
Parents can have a duty to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, say bioethicists
By Michael Cook Editor’s note. This appears at www.bioedge.org/index.php/bioethics/bioethics_article/10016 and is reprinted with permission. When
The Joy of Parenting Children with Down Syndrome
By Wesley J. Smith Pre natal genetic testing has turned into a search and destroy eugenic abortion mission that