Designer babies ethical or immoral? an evaluation.
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- Mon Dec 22 2003

... DESIGNER BABIES - ETHICAL OR IMMORAL? - AN EVALUATION. This essay aims to look at both sides of a subject much in the news at present. A couple have just won a court injunction which allows them to have their embryos genetically screened in order to select one that could help them save the life of their son. Whether the end justifies the means or not is a question many people will be asking themselves. Whether anybody has a right to select and reject any amount of fertilized embryos is a very sensitive subject. On Tuesday 8th April 2003 a court made a landmark decision to allow a couple to filter their embryos by tissue typing in order to establish a match for their four year old son, Dyer & Wainwright (2003). They originally had permission to start this treatment in December 2001 from the human fertilisation and embryology authorisation but this













