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...only about 2,000 counselors nationwide. The only thing most women know about genetic screening is what they learn from pamphlets handed out in the course of routine prenatal care, and too often the message there is sugarcoated. "They talk about 'making your baby better' or 'having a better birth outcome' instead of talking about the fact that this is really a test about selective termination," says medical anthropologist Nancy Press of Oregon Health Sciences University. The failure to make explicit that message--and the decision it forces--says Press, "is simply, clearly, morally wrong...
...October a 24-year-old woman who had been comatose for more than three years gave birth to a baby girl. It was only a few days before the delivery that the staff at the woman's nursing home in Lawrence, Mass., even discovered that she was pregnant. Under the circumstances, the pregnancy had to have been the result of rape; yet the woman was uniquely unable to name her assailant. If she couldn't speak, however, the blood of her daughter could. Shortly after the baby's birth, the police drew a sample of the infant's blood, then...
...bioethics, he embraced genetic tinkering for "medical reasons," while denouncing the "Frankenstein idea" of making "designer babies" with good looks and a high IQ. But what is the difference? Therapists consider learning disabilities to be medical problems, and if we find a way to diagnose and remedy them before birth, we'll be raising scores on IQ tests. Should we tell parents they can't do that, that the state has decided they must have a child with dyslexia? Minor memory flaws? Below-average verbal skills? At some point you cross the line between handicap and inconvenience, but people will...
French Anderson, ever pushing the envelope, last September asked the National Institutes of Health to begin considering gene therapy in the womb for fetuses found to be afflicted with a hemoglobin deficiency that would kill them before birth and for fetuses with ADA deficiency, the "bubble boy" disorder he treated in his pioneering 1990 trial...
...announcement in February 1997 of the birth of a sheep named Dolly, an exact genetic replica of its mother, sparked a worldwide debate over the moral and medical implications of cloning. Several U.S. states and European countries have banned the cloning of human beings, yet South Korean scientists claimed last month that they had already taken the first step. In the following essay for TIME, embryologist Wilmut, who led the team that brought Dolly to life at Scotland's Roslin Institute, explains why he believes the debate over cloning people has largely missed the point...