prenatal testing
Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis with IVF techniques, and increasing intra-uterine scanning and testing have opened the door to choices over which babies are born. What ethical problems do they pose for Christians?
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Keziah (triple helix - winter 2011)
A little piece of God's heart Lizzie Grayson Sovereign World Ltd, 2011 £7.99 Pb 144pp ISBN 978 1 85240 540 3 - This is one of a small but growing number of books on the market telling the story of how people cope with the news that their unborn child has a potentially fatal diagnosis. 20 weeks...
patients refused pre-implantation genetic tests (nucleus - summer 2009)
Couples at risk of passing on inheritable genetic diseases to their offspring are being denied funding to screen their embryos, experts have claimed. Such individuals are eligible for IVF in order to produce embryos that can be tested for abnormalities via pre-implantation genetic diagnosis...
Should baby be risked for sister?
6/8/2008
(published: BBC News: 5 August 2008)
Catherine is a little girl condemned by genetic disease to a gruelling regime of treatment. She could be released from it by a sibling, but the sibling is not yet conceived ...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7541113.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7541113.stm
Is it wrong to select a deaf embryo?
10/3/2008
(published: BBC News - 10 March 2008)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7287508.stm
2. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) -
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2007-8 Briefings from the Christian Medical Fellowship - Background - The 2008 Bill updates the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act, and seeks to take account of the many new developments in science and technology. PGD involves screening embryos created by IVF for their genetic...
3. Sex selection -
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2007-8 Briefings from the Christian Medical Fellowship - Background - Sex selection may be considered for either social or medical reasons and there are three stages at which it can be performed. Sex selection by PGD at embryo stage currently has to be approved by the HFEA and the Bill...
4. 'Saviour siblings' -
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill 2007-8 Briefings from the Christian Medical Fellowship - Background - IVF and PGD together now allow selection of an embryo that will have the potential of growing into an ideal tissue donor for an existing person - a so-called 'saviour sibling'. The Bill sanctions...
Defiant Birth - Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics (Book Review) (triple helix - autumn 2006)
Defiant Birth - Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics - Melinda Tankard Reist - Spinifex Press 2006 - £12.95 Pb 338pp - ISBN 1 8767 5659 4 - Russell T Davies, writer of the current 'Doctor Who' series, may well applaud this book. Discussing the insane cyber controller's vision of eradicating all human...
The Shaming of the Strong - The challenge of an unborn life (Book Review) (triple helix - summer 2006)
Sarah Williams - Life Journey (Kingsway) 2005 - £6.99 Pb 176 pp - ISBN 1-84291-1791 - To date, there has been a shortage of accessible material on the experience of continuing a pregnancy where the child has been found to have a severe abnormality. Here, at last, is a book where allied medical...
Donor sibling treatment on the NHS
25/11/2004
(published: Telegraph 2004; 25 November, Guardian 2004; 25 November, bbc.co.uk 2002; 20 December)
Three UK health authorities have agreed to fund controversial 'saviour sibling' treatment on the NHS, with another eight or nine considering a similar move. The process will be used to treat children suffering mainly from genetic blood disorders. It involves couples creating embryos through in vitro fertilisation (IVF). Embryos carrying the...
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