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Misleading "Slate" article slurs PGD
Saturday, September 16, 2006 2:25 AM

"Now you can design your own baby. But should you?" is the tantalizing teaser for this week's much-quoted article about preimplantation genetic diagnosis in the online magazine Slate. The inaccurate and sensational lead-in is entirely appropriate for the misleading, fear-mongering article. I guess this is what happens when an article about advanced reproductive... Read More...

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Filed under: PGD, Ethics

Article: Test Tube Perfection (Herald Sun, Australia)
Thursday, July 21, 2005 5:16 AM

Article: Test tube perfection , Herald Sun, Australia Quotes from the maladroit Father Bill Uren, rector of the Jesuit Theological College: He denounced parents who "just want to create children after their own image". What, exactly, kind of children should I want, then? I pretty much thought children in our "own image" was the natural course of events. "What... Read More...

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Filed under: PGD, Australia, Ethics

Article: Birth of first "Savior Sibling" conceived in the UK with PGD
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:21 AM

Article: 'Savior sibling' born to Fletcher family (BioNews, UK) I've written before about the Whitakers, a family with a seriously ill son who could be cured by a bone marrow transfusion. They hoped to use PGD to have a 'savior sibling' -- using an embryo selected because it was a tissue match for their older son. However, the UK's HFEA (the aptly called "watchdog... Read More...

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Filed under: PGD, UK (United Kingdom), Ethics

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