LONDON (Jan. 9) -- The first child in Britain known to have been screened as an embryo to ensure she did not carry a cancer gene was born Friday, a spokesman for University College London told CNN.
"This little girl will not face the specter of developing this genetic form of breast cancer or ovarian cancer in her adult life," said Paul Serhal, a consultant at University College London Hospital and Medical Director of the Assisted Conception Unit.
"The parents will have been spared the risk of inflicting this disease on their daughter. The lasting legacy is the eradication of the transmission of this form of cancer that has blighted these families for generations."
Yet not everyone is thrilled with the idea of testing embryos for genes that could cause health problems later in life, a process known as preimplanatation genetic diagnosis.
"This is simply a mechanism for eliminating the birth of anybody (prone to) the disease," she said. "It is basically a search-and-kill mechanism."
I'm sure the pro-abortionists are thrilled with this.
~*~*~Krystal~*~*~
4 comments:
Heil, Hitler. Let the eugenics begin.
Gattaca.
It's a wasted effort. There is suffering on earth, and we can't avoid it.
by the way, AWESOME tunes!!
Who's to say that this "cancer-free" baby isn't going to start smoking a pack a day at age 14, right? or move someplace where there's illegal dumping? or eat highly processed foods with hormones and/or pesticides on them?
We have no business playing God.
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