Embryo screening should be mandatory (For Diseases)

Genetic Future ^ | March 6, 2009 | Daniel MacArthur

[MeganC]

Eugenics rears its ugly head once more.

[LukeL]

The idea that CF and Muscular Dystrophy being things of the past makes no sense, unless you screen ALL pregnancies, even then you are bound to have false negatives. There is also the problem that in many genetic disorders upwards of 50% are new mutations that occur without any parent carrying the defective gene. Also many disorders occur after fertilization and only effect certain cells, so an amnio would do nothing.

[aruanan]

Appell dodges one obvious criticism of this suggestion - that it unacceptably limits parental autonomy - by pointing out that "Western societies have long acknowledged that parental authority cannot undermine the medical interests of a child".

Like the child's medical interest in being aborted?

[a fool in paradise]

The ADA should stamp this out.

[a fool in paradise]

The Left claimed it was child abuse to let Trig Palin be born.

[patriciaruth]

So the disabled don’t have the right to be born?

[ak267]

In that kind of perveted system, if you wanted a “defective” child, the state/insurance would not pay for it’s care. Face with that (and with the desire for “convienance”), abortions would increase bigtime.

I could see (within 200-300 years of selecitve breeding and genetive manipulation) an “inbred, mentally-hubris” species not adaptive to change with little variation. Those not augmented will be regulated to “second-tier” status. One only needs to read the “Dune” series (or “Gatica” movie) to see the consequences.

Face it, humans survive when we’re mutts. :)

[a fool in paradise]

We need a constitutional amendment to protect humans against genetic discrimination (in determining birth, insurance coverage, employment, etc.). Not because these rights “don’t already exist” but to take the issue out of the hands of activist judges.

[Billthedrill]

Pre-implantation is sort of hurrying things a little, isn’t it?

[aruanan]

The Left claimed it was child abuse to let Trig Palin be born.

I have a little brother who is a Downs child. He has as much pleasure (and probably more) in what he is able to do as any body else does. The Left sucks A.

[New Perspective]

parents of disabled children will be increasingly viewed by society as being responsible for their child's disease.

I have just two words for this piece of trash.

[New Perspective]

God Bless your family.

[MrB]

This embecile cost the "volk" 60,000 reichmarks during his lifetime:

[LukeL]

Have you seen the move idiocracy?

[MrB]

The Left sucks A

No, that implies ineptitude. The Left is EVIL.

In English the word left comes from 'lyft' meaning worthless. Italians use 'sinistra' or sinister.

[ArrogantBustard]

And that's your money, people!!!

[theBuckwheat]

I wonder how many advocates of forced embryo screening are opposed to using the same State power to require that women wanting an abortion must be shown an ultrasound image of their unborn child.

[TurtleUp]

:The idea that CF and Muscular Dystrophy being things of the past makes no sense, unless you screen ALL pregnancies, even then you are bound to have false negatives.

Don't forget the false positives (saying the baby has a problem when there is no problem). How many children will die because mommy got a test that said there was something wrong, and it turned out that the only problem was in the test, not with the baby? Once baby is sucked out with a vacuum and thrown in the trash, it's a little late to say,"oopsie".

Many tests for rare conditions, including the initial screening test for HIV, have more false positives than valid positives. Testing without a reason will vastly increase the proportion of positive results that are false.

[MrB]

Of course not.

The WHOLE POINT here is to DEVALUE human life.