Embryo Screening Flashcards
1
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What is the against arguement for embryo screening
A
May be a time when everyone wants their embryo screened to produce their perfect child. Embryos with bad alleles would be destroyed. They could’ve developed into a human had a right to live.
Expensive
2
Q
Arguement for embryo screening
A
Help people stop suffering
Laws to stop it going to far. E.g. Parents can’t choose sex of baby
Trusting disorders costs money
3
Q
What is embryo screening
A
Where embryo are taken out of mother and fertilised in lab and checked to see if that embryo is healthy . Can detect embryos with cyclic fibrosis . Only good clear alleles inserted in mother
