Breast cancer patients to select embryos
Tuesday 27 May 2008
Women with a serious type of genetically-determined breast cancer will soon be able to select their embryos so they do not pass the gene on to their children, junior health minister Jet Bussemaker told tv news programme Network on Monday evening.
At the moment, selecting test tube embryos before they are placed in the womb is illegal, but Bussemaker said she will change the law to make it possible for 'this very specific group'.
Bussemaker's predecessor Clemence Ross stopped the practice of checking embryos for the breast cancer gene and then selecting those without it in May 2006.
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This is a VERY slippery slope. Why is it you can't have a cat declawed because it is inhumane to the cat, but you can decide which babies live and which die based upon predictions of possible health problems? I think removing claws is a lot less serious than deciding who lives and who dies, yet the people here are being given the choice to end a child's life while their cat destroys their furniture. Am I the only one who sees something wrong??? Probably.
By Tim Lee | May 28, 2008 9:50 AM