Patients paramount in embryo row: doctors

Patients must not lose out on treatment because politicians are slow to take decisions, the national doctors’ association KNMG said on Wednesday in response to the row over embryo selection.


Doctors and ethical experts should decide on an illness-by-illness basis whether prenatal screening is appropriate, the KNMG is reported as saying by news agency ANP.

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