Jennifer Kimball
The recent announcement of the first UK baby created with a new found product guaranteed to be free from breast cancer marks a new turn in human reproduction. While most of the attention has focused on the ability to provide a guarantee for the avoidance of a life-threatening illness, the question surrounding the therapeutic role of medicine has slid by the wayside.
New technologies in human reproduction are becoming more and more removed from the principal aim to develop therapies needed to overcome human illnesses. The distraction? The ever-advancing ability to create multiple human individuals for selection and research. The effort now is not to genetically cure a human individual's pathology in the early stages of development. It is to discriminate against those individuals who carry genetic or other defects.
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