Opinion

Opinion Response Journal #1 Making Responsible Decisions: An Interpretive Ethic for Genetic Decision making In the Newsweek article, “Making Responsible Decisions”, author Mary Terrell White debates the issue of genetic counseling and it’s affect on the client’s ability to make thoughtful and good decisions. Due to the frequency of medical advancements in technology, many new horizons are unfolding which demand legal and ethical limitations, including the genetic testing of embryos. White continues to describe this need to “constrain on the uses of genetic testing” with respect to fetal and human rights. However the way to construct such restraint is the topic of debate. Frankly, I am baffled by the way both those involved in science and the government constantly waiver between human rights and fetus rights. In cases such as changing a fetus to have down syndrome, White argues the morality of such actions due to fetus rights. She argues against the ethics of allowing genetic mutation such as “requests for aid in conceiving children with disabilities” because it would “deliberately limit a child’s potential” in his or her lifetime. However, when the widely accepted medical procedure of abortion is put upon the table, the fetus is no longer a potential being with a genetic, medical, white, rights, new, human, fetus, abortion, without, technology, need, making, legal, decisions, counseling, because, way, testing, responsible, potential, needs, longer, lives, however, government, feelings, ethical, due, decision, debate, changing, believe, argues, argue, allowing, agree