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1. Sexual Selection:
Enhancement
Cure of disease of capabilities
somatic cells 1 3
2 4
germ-line cells ____________________
I. Cure of Disease:
Type 1 - aims to cure a condition that is generally
acknowledged to be a disease by genetically
altering the non-reproductive cells of a patient.
Done thru “bone marrow transplantation with an
extra step.”
(3)
ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS
(4)
Possible risks:
(5)
Types 3 & 4 - Ethically unacceptable
GENETIC INTERVENTION:
1. Genetic therapy
2. Genetic surgery
3. Genetic splicing
(6)
GENETIC SCREENING: It is done with the purpose
of aborting the fetus if it is
GENETIC CONTROL: found to be deformed,
hence, it is to be condemned
PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS: as a violation of the unborn
child’s right to life.
(8)
4. If the foregoing problems can be overcome, it will be
ethically desirable to develop and use genetic methods
for therapy of genetic defects in existing embryos,
keeping in view the risk-benefit proportion.
Two contexts:
1. Extended family context –
Individuals or couple who learn that they
have genetic disease or carry a genetic trait
may face decisions about whether to inform
their parents, their siblings, their children,
and even more distant relatives.
(10)
2. Business context -
involve either employers or insurers. “the
potential for misuse as well as unintended
social or economic injury, information about
genetic conditions should be disclosed to
insurers or employers only with the explicit
consent of the person tested”.
A. Principal benefits:
1. knowledge
2. the ability to avoid transmitting genetic
disease to offspring
3. the ability to secure timely treatment for a
genetic condition.
4. may help to “democratize” genetic disease
- it may become clearer that visible and
invisible genetic problems are simply an
omnipresent aspect of the human condition
B. Possible harms:
1. through coercion
2. through leading to exclusion from the work
force or the health care system
3. through providing incomplete information or
partial services.
4. a positive genetic test may result in the
stigmatization of the individual tested.
(11)