Current problems of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis in the Context of Parental Aspirations
Journal Title: Białostockie Studia Prawnicze - Year 2017, Vol 0, Issue 22
Abstract
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is designed to assist in conception when a serious hereditary disease aff ects a couple and it is necessary to screen out embryos carrying chromosomal or genetic abnormalities. Th e procedure may therefore be lawfully applied only for medical reasons to avoid a particular risk of transmitting genetic defects to a child regardless if the couple is infertile or not. In practice, PGD raises many ethical objections as a method which – as the doctrine says – commodifi es reproduction and enables unwanted practice of positive eugenics (a selection of embryos of a particular sex or carrying certain qualities, let alone particular defects (deafness, blindness, etc.). Parents may be prone to choose the features of their future child and decide, by means of PGD, to have a baby of a certain sex, genetic make-up, or to conceive a tissue match for a living sibling. Th e legislator should therefore intervene, establish the normative framework for the practice of PGD, and keep continuous control over its application to prevent the abuse of the child’s welfare.
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Kinga Bączyk-Rozwadowska
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- DOI 10.15290/bsp.2017.22.02.01
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