Embryonic screening

Question 1

What are the economic advantages and disadvantages of embryonic screening?

Answer 1

Adv:

It allows parents to prepare financially for the health-care of their baby if they choose to keep it

Disadv:

Screening is very expensive

Question 2

What are the social advantages and disadvantages of embryonic screening?

Answer 2

Adv:

It reduces the number of people with the disorder in a population

Disadv:

Just screening to produce offspring with ‘desirable traits’ is unethical and can lead to discrimination of people who have the ‘undesirable trait’

Question 3

What are the ethical advantages and disadvantages of embyronic screening?

Answer 3

Adv:

It prevents the birth of a child with health problems

Disadv:
Screening can result in false positives which can resut in the termination of a healthy baby which is unethical