[Stoat]

How many Einsteins, Beethovens, Winston Churchills or George Washingtons will now be murdered because there is a 'slight probability' that they 'might' contract a disease fifty years after they are born?

And who is to say that a cure for Alzheimer's (or any other disease) will not be discovered within the next fifty years?

Such arrogance, such a lack of foresight and such monstrous evil is now a part of the law and as such is now part of 'normal, everyday procedures'......

 

 

 

May God Help us all

[Stoat]

Ping

[GovernmentShrinker]

Experts say there is a 50 per cent he is carrying the gene and a 50 per cent chance of him passing it on. While Mr de Beer has said he does not want to know if he is carrying the disease . . .

I have no problem with people screening embryos for genetic defects like this, but it's ridiculous for the father to refuse to be tested first, given a 50% chance that he's not even carrying the gene and can't pass it on to any of the embryos.

[toast]

Gattaca

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119177/plotsummary

BTW: I like your screen name.

[Logophile]

A couple who fear their child could inherit a rare form of Alzheimer's are to undergo embryo screening to eliminate the risk.

And how, pray tell, does embryo screening "eliminate the risk"?

[Logophile]

A couple who fear their child could inherit a rare form of Alzheimer's are to undergo embryo screening to eliminate the risk.

And how, pray tell, does embryo screening "eliminate the risk"?