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Which is NOT a position of the authors on genetic intervention?
{ 1 } - It will not be ethically desirable to develop and use genetic methods for therapy of genetic defects in existing embryos.
{ 2 } - Proposals to improve the human race by sex selection, cloning, or genetic reconstruction are ethically unacceptable in the present state of knowledge. Unless limited to very modest interventions, they would restrict the genetic variability important to human survival, and they would separate reproduction from its parental context.
{ 3 } - Presently proposed methods of genetic reconstruction of human beings involve in vitro fertilization and other procedures that are ethically objectionable because they separate reproduction from its parental context and involve the productions of human beings, some of whom will be defective because of experimental failure and who probably will be destroyed.
{ 4 } - It is more feasible, technically and ethically, to improve the human condition by improving the environment and development of the individual, that is the, phenotype, than by modifying genetic endowment, that is, the genotype, so priority in research and medical resources should be given to the former effort.
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Which is NOT a position of the authors on genetic intervention?
{ 1 } - It will not be ethically desirable to develop and use genetic methods for therapy of genetic defects in existing embryos.
{ 2 } - Proposals to improve the human race by sex selection, cloning, or genetic reconstruction are ethically unacceptable in the present state of knowledge. Unless limited to very modest interventions, they would restrict the genetic variability important to human survival, and they would separate reproduction from its parental context.
{ 3 } - Presently proposed methods of genetic reconstruction of human beings involve in vitro fertilization and other procedures that are ethically objectionable because they separate reproduction from its parental context and involve the productions of human beings, some of whom will be defective because of experimental failure and who probably will be destroyed.
{ 4 } - It is more feasible, technically and ethically, to improve the human condition by improving the environment and development of the individual, that is the, phenotype, than by modifying genetic endowment, that is, the genotype, so priority in research and medical resources should be given to the former effort.
They hold that it will be if ethical and technical problems mentioned in the other answers can be overcome, keeping in view the risk-benefit proportion. See p. 323.
See p. 323.
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Which is NOT a position of the authors on genetic intervention?
{ 1 } - It will not be ethically desirable to develop and use genetic methods for therapy of genetic defects in existing embryos.
{ 2 } - Proposals to improve the human race by sex selection, cloning, or genetic reconstruction are ethically unacceptable in the present state of knowledge. Unless limited to very modest interventions, they would restrict the genetic variability important to human survival, and they would separate reproduction from its parental context.
{ 3 } - Presently proposed methods of genetic reconstruction of human beings involve in vitro fertilization and other procedures that are ethically objectionable because they separate reproduction from its parental context and involve the productions of human beings, some of whom will be defective because of experimental failure and who probably will be destroyed.
{ 4 } - It is more feasible, technically and ethically, to improve the human condition by improving the environment and development of the individual, that is the, phenotype, than by modifying genetic endowment, that is, the genotype, so priority in research and medical resources should be given to the former effort.
See p. 322-3. For an article on the ethics of cloning, see http://www.vatican.va/roman curia/pontifical academies/acdlife/documents/rc pont-acd life doc 30091997 clon en.shtml.
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Which is NOT a position of the authors on genetic intervention?
{ 1 } - It will not be ethically desirable to develop and use genetic methods for therapy of genetic defects in existing embryos.
{ 2 } - Proposals to improve the human race by sex selection, cloning, or genetic reconstruction are ethically unacceptable in the present state of knowledge. Unless limited to very modest interventions, they would restrict the genetic variability important to human survival, and they would separate reproduction from its parental context.
{ 3 } - Presently proposed methods of genetic reconstruction of human beings involve in vitro fertilization and other procedures that are ethically objectionable because they separate reproduction from its parental context and involve the productions of human beings, some of whom will be defective because of experimental failure and who probably will be destroyed.
{ 4 } - It is more feasible, technically and ethically, to improve the human condition by improving the environment and development of the individual, that is the, phenotype, than by modifying genetic endowment, that is, the genotype, so priority in research and medical resources should be given to the former effort.
See p. 322.
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Which is NOT a position of the authors on genetic intervention?
{ 1 } - It will not be ethically desirable to develop and use genetic methods for therapy of genetic defects in existing embryos.
{ 2 } - Proposals to improve the human race by sex selection, cloning, or genetic reconstruction are ethically unacceptable in the present state of knowledge. Unless limited to very modest interventions, they would restrict the genetic variability important to human survival, and they would separate reproduction from its parental context.
{ 3 } - Presently proposed methods of genetic reconstruction of human beings involve in vitro fertilization and other procedures that are ethically objectionable because they separate reproduction from its parental context and involve the productions of human beings, some of whom will be defective because of experimental failure and who probably will be destroyed.
{ 4 } - It is more feasible, technically and ethically, to improve the human condition by improving the environment and development of the individual, that is the, phenotype, than by modifying genetic endowment, that is, the genotype, so priority in research and medical resources should be given to the former effort.
See p. 322.
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