Where do we go? – Bioethical and Criminal Law Response to the Concept of Reprogenetics
Journal
«МЕЃУНАРОДЕН ДИЈАЛОГ: ИСТОК - ЗАПАД (ФИЛОЗОФИЈА, ЛИНГВИСТИКА, КУЛТУРОЛОГИЈА)
Date Issued
2019
Author(s)
Deanoska - Trendafilova, Aleksandra
DOI
http://konferencii.msu.edu.mk/wp-content/uploads/000_Spisanie-10-konferentsija-FILOZOFIJA-final2.pdf
Abstract
ABSTRACT: The list of challenges that bioethics faces regarding life sciences is increasing proportionately with the galloping development of biomedical sciences. One of
the actual matters is the concept of the so-called reprogenetics and the need to specify its meaning vis-à-vis eugenics. This paper will elaborate the term of eugenics and
its negative dimension derived from the Nazi eugenics programs, the ideas of modern
eugenic movements; the key difference that the eugenics is always focussed at the
society as a whole in order to provide «clean» future generations, while reprogenetics
is carried out on an individual level - for example, the future parents may decide to
create an embryo «clean» of mutated genes etc.
From a bioethical and criminal point of view, it is not the same whether healthy
offspring will be obtained through deprivation of life or sterilization of carriers of
severe hereditary diseases, by aborting foetuses with detected anomalies or by creating healthy embryos. The first case is extremely unethical and illegal; the second
is disputable due to the differences in the national treatment of reproductive rights,
while in the latter, there is no entity (embryo, foetus or person) whose right would
be violated.
the actual matters is the concept of the so-called reprogenetics and the need to specify its meaning vis-à-vis eugenics. This paper will elaborate the term of eugenics and
its negative dimension derived from the Nazi eugenics programs, the ideas of modern
eugenic movements; the key difference that the eugenics is always focussed at the
society as a whole in order to provide «clean» future generations, while reprogenetics
is carried out on an individual level - for example, the future parents may decide to
create an embryo «clean» of mutated genes etc.
From a bioethical and criminal point of view, it is not the same whether healthy
offspring will be obtained through deprivation of life or sterilization of carriers of
severe hereditary diseases, by aborting foetuses with detected anomalies or by creating healthy embryos. The first case is extremely unethical and illegal; the second
is disputable due to the differences in the national treatment of reproductive rights,
while in the latter, there is no entity (embryo, foetus or person) whose right would
be violated.
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