Savior Siblings – PGD Archive
A reporter/writer recently contacted me and shared the stories she’s found about savior siblings. Here is the secon one – Fabian & Ivan Ravelo: With Faith and Science: Our Pre-Implantation Genetics Diagnosis Experience by Marina Ravelo (pedro and marino ravelo live in Chicago area) On November 26, 2005 the
ROME (Reuters) – Pope Benedict on Saturday condemned genetic engineering and other scientific practices that allow people to select so-called “designer babies” by screening them for defects. In a speech to the Pontifical Academy for Life, a Church body of experts, the Pope also attacked artificial insemination and the
Here is what some people in Japan think about PGD. Boost use of genetic diagnosis By RINA SHIBOI Tokyo Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a medical technology that checks whether the chromosomes and genes of fertilized eggs are defective. Today, even though there isn’t a particular law that prohibits
MIT Technology Review interviewed a bioethicist at the Univ. of Pennsylvania who studies the ethical issues surrounding PGD. Shaping Babies The number of genetic tests that can be performed during in vitro fertilization is skyrocketing. What does this mean for human reproduction? …doctors, clinicians, and their ethical-review boards are
There was an article today at a United Kingdom newspaper regarding “designer babies”, also known as pre implatation genetic diagnosis (the procedure we used to find Sofia..). The title of the article: “Outcry as clinic offers ‘designer baby’ embryo screening for 200 diseases” By Jenny Hope Daily Mail I