Ethical Aspects of Genetic Controls

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Genetic medicine and manipulation are challenged on ethical grounds. The attack includes a condemnation of sacrifice even of a zygote as a form of abortion, abortion being held to be (as such) immoral. This means that embryology, fetology and all forms of laboratory reproduction are immoral - that physicians and scientists are murderers. The ethical issue is between those who determine what is right or wrong by consequences, as most people in medicine and society do, and those who (like the moralists who condemn all abortion, no matter how early) decide what is right on a priori grounds, often metarational or religious. On the basis of consequences neither abortion nor genetic control can be condemned. It would depend on the case and the values we seek. Is humanness something given in a conceptus, or something that develops in it? Are fetal "rights" more important than human needs?
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