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Assisting Reproduction, Choosing Genes, and the Scope of Reproductive Freedom

By Alliance Alert

Genetic selection and shaping also involve the freedom to reproduce. The use of those techniques entails steps that could reveal or change the genetic makeup of prospective children and thereby affect a person?s willingness to procreate. While most selection is now done negatively, that is, by screening out gametes and embryos with particular genes, the technical ability to delete or add genetic material will soon be in our hands. Here we need to examine whether choice of offspring traits is an essential part of reproductive freedom, and what moral or policy difference negative selection versus positive alteration makes.

Full post as published by Constitutionally Correct on January 19, 2009 (boomark / email).