Fascinating, thank you! I feel that it is important that clear information be available on current options and their effectiveness (independently of one’s opinion of embyro screening, societal effects of this becoming commonplace, and if all traits should be made available for selection).
Personally I’d most likely go through with screening for my potential future kids, most definitely for diseases (I cannot imagine intentionally allowing my kids to get preventable genetic diseases) and possibly for other traits as well. I still don’t know how much information I’d want to know, or if wanting to avoid knowing traits about my future kids is an illogical cultural vestige. I think it’s a topic worth discussing openly, either way. I often see an avoidance of the topic altogether, as if giving it a blanket determination of “immoral” or a “slippery slope” were to make it go away entirely.
Fascinating, thank you! I feel that it is important that clear information be available on current options and their effectiveness (independently of one’s opinion of embyro screening, societal effects of this becoming commonplace, and if all traits should be made available for selection).
Personally I’d most likely go through with screening for my potential future kids, most definitely for diseases (I cannot imagine intentionally allowing my kids to get preventable genetic diseases) and possibly for other traits as well. I still don’t know how much information I’d want to know, or if wanting to avoid knowing traits about my future kids is an illogical cultural vestige. I think it’s a topic worth discussing openly, either way. I often see an avoidance of the topic altogether, as if giving it a blanket determination of “immoral” or a “slippery slope” were to make it go away entirely.