By : Henry T. Greely Institute

Within twenty, maybe forty, years most people in developed countries will stop having sex for the purpose of reproduction. Instead, prospective parents will be told as much as they wish to know about the genetic makeup of dozens of embryos, and they will pick one or two for implantation, gestation, and birth. And it will be safe, lawful, and free. In this work of prophetic scholarship, Henry T. Greely explains the revolutionary biological technologies that make this future a seeming inevitability and sets out the deep ethical and legal challenges humanity faces as a result.Developments in genetics and stem cell research are giving rise to new techniques that will vastly improve preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) and in vitro fertilization (IVF), making sexless reproduction not just possible but cheap and easy--what Greely coins "easy PGD." The first child born using PGD is now 25 years old, and thousands more are born each year. Advanced by economic, social, legal, and political
Author : Henry T. Greely
Pages : 400 pages
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0674728963
ISBN-13 : 9780674728967
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