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| Couples Cull Embryos to Halt Heritage of Cancerby Amy Harmon, New York TimesSeptember 3rd, 2006"Prospective parents have been using the procedure, known as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, or P.G.D., for more than a decade to screen for genes certain to cause childhood diseases that are severe and largely untreatable." |
| Cut-off GenesOur gentle descent toward eugenicsby William Saletan, SlateMay 19th, 2006"The most important shift in the HFEA decision is that the lines being drawn in each of these areas_probability, treatability, and age of onset_are increasingly subjective." |
| A Wrongful Birth?by By Elizabeth Weil, New York Times MagazineMarch 12th, 2006"An unintended and particularly disconcerting consequence of all these new reproductive lawsuits is that they may bias the medical establishment toward termination, and some argue that such a bias already exists." |
| Opinion: Select one: a boy or a girl?by Ellen M. McGee, NewsdayJanuary 3rd, 2006"Humans always have cared about the gender of their offspring and over the centuries have used a variety of means, from herbal teas to infanticide, to attempt to get the boy or girl they wanted." |
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