Category: Genetic Testing

By Michel Cook “Advanced embryo genetic testing. Choose your healthiest embryo.” This is the slogan of Genome Prediction, an American company which is selling polygenic risk scores (PRSs) analyses of embryos to prospective parents. It claims that its technology is being used in 173 IVF clinics in 37 countries. Its mission is “Choice over chance: helping …

By Dave Andrusko I’d wager a pretty penny that the New York Times thought long and hard about publishing “When They Warn of Rare Disorders, These Prenatal Tests Are Usually Wrong.” As pro-life bioethicist Wesley J. Smith wrote, “Prenatal-testing companies are making a lot of money selling early-gestation, prenatal blood tests that search for rare …

By Wesley J. Smith  Eugenics is alive and well with prenatal testing deployed to detect conditions — such as Down syndrome and dwarfism — toward the frequent end (and often, purpose) of ensuring that offending babies are never born. Iceland, thus, brags that almost no Down children make it to birth. What a tragedy for the babies, parents, …

‘Child abuse is an offense reportable by health care providers. Yet scientific journals publish such research as if it represents a good’ By Martin Bürger LONDON, England, June 26, 2020 – A Catholic ethicist has characterized as “child abuse” the embryonic research of a team of UK scientists after they destroyed over a dozen tiny …

By Wesley J. Smith When a scientist in China proudly announced the birth of the first germ-line genetically engineered babies — meaning the alterations would flow down the generations — there was a firestorm. But notably, despite the screaming and arrest of the scientist by China (as if the authorities in the great tyranny didn’t know …