The debate in Bioethics The UK paves the way for germline disorders

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Published: Jul 14, 2014
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gene therapy, eugenics, abortion, unconditional welcome, depersonalization

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Agneta Sutton, Dra.
Heythrop College London University

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The UK Government is in position to grant the germ-line gene therapy fy mitochondria replacement to avoiding hereditary transmission of serious diseases. This article shows the techniques, in all their details, and make clear that them may be used in addition to prenatal testing and selective abortion. The techniques involve the sacrifice of two embryos. They are not only destructive, but this means treating nascent human life as building material, and the resulting embryo would have two genetic mothers.





The Catholic Church position in Donum Vitae and Dignitas Personae says that human life is to be respected and protected as personal from the time of fertilization. The child-to-be is a member of the human family and a gift from God to be uncondi- tionally welcome. Never has come to be treated as a commodity created to satisfy adult desire.







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Sutton, A. (2014). The debate in Bioethics: The UK paves the way for germline disorders. Medicina Y Ética, 25(3), 301–314. Retrieved from https://publicaciones.anahuac.mx/index.php/bioetica/article/view/711
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Vol. 25 No. 3 (2014): Medicina y Ética Vol. XXV No. 3
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Author Biography

Agneta Sutton, Dra., Heythrop College London University

PhD in Bioethics from the Department of Pastoral Theology at Heythrop College, London

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