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...also becoming an issue in the courts, not just as a forensic tool to catch criminals but even to settle private squabbles, says Professor Lori Andrews of Chicago-Kent College of Law. In a custody case in South Carolina, a judge ordered a man's former wife to be tested for Huntington's because it might impair her ability to care for their children. In another case, a manufacturer demanded a genetic test of an ailing boy in order to show that his illness was caused not by the toxicity of substances made by the company but by his genetic...
...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...
...Lawrence the question is being raised anew, as men--all but one of them presumably innocent--weigh the ease of submitting to a DNA test against their right to refuse and the suspicion that would be raised if they did. It's a problem that is becoming more and more familiar--and, for civil libertarians, cause for more and more alarm. "These are technologies in which powerful organs in society control members with less power," frets Philip Bereano, a member of the American Civil Liberties Union's board of directors. "They are inherently violative of civil rights...
...late to go back. In a relatively short time, suggests Princeton University biologist Lee Silver, whose book Remaking Eden addresses precisely these sorts of issues, sex selection may cease to be much of an issue. His model is in vitro fertilization, the technique used to make "test-tube" babies. "When the world first learned about IVF two decades ago," he says, "it was horrifying to most people, and most said that they wouldn't use it even if they were infertile. But growing demand makes it socially acceptable, and now anybody who's infertile demands...
...result, many gene-therapy trials failed during what the FDA calls Phase I, in which the safety of the procedure is evaluated on a handful of patients. Others proved ineffective and faltered during Phase II trials, which test a larger group to determine the efficacy of the therapy. And apparently only one trial has so far weathered Phase III, which calls for a larger number of patients and a statistical analysis of the results before the FDA gives its approval for general...