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Right Problem, Wrong Solution: A Pro-Choice Response to “Expressivist” Concerns about Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 December 2006

COLIN GAVAGHAN
COLIN GAVAGHAN
Affiliation:
School of Law, University of Glasgow, Scotland
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In August 2005, the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation & Embryology Authority (HFEA) launched a public consultation, seeking views on the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for the detection of cancer genes. The issue was considered by the Authority to be a possible source of particular controversy because it involved extending the range of conditions for which PGD can be licensed in a potentially important way: As well as testing for genes that would definitely cause disease traits, such as cystic fibrosis and muscular dystrophy, this would involve genes that would only possibly manifest themselves phenotypically. In other words, there is a very real chance that such an application of PGD would result in the destruction of perfectly healthy embryos.

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , January 2007 , pp. 20 - 34
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© 2007 Cambridge University Press

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