Eugenics high tech
The crux of the human remains at the center of bioethics and biopolitics contemporary, a focal point where it is in our future human beings, the way we think about ourselves and others (including conceived) as belonging to the one human race. Reconfirms this crucial intervention of Senator Ignazio Marino (Corriere della Sera, 28 November), which raises sensitive issues. Senator Marino writes: "The techniques to give birth to a baby in a test tube are a couple with fertility problems to crown their family project, but also make it possible to identify certain diseases in the early stages of embryo development, before His mother's uterus. There are some very serious diseases like cancer or thalassemia. Marino also introduces the possibility that one day humans could address in a mass to play in the test tube to make sure to give birth to healthy children. What horizons open up, question?
is clear that to achieve that certainty should be used in a eugenic selection of embryos created in vitro in order to implant only those perfectly healthy. Here we are faced with a really crucial junction: who and what is the human embryo? We do what we want, without qualms of conscience by practicing a true eugenics, eliminating defective embryos before implantation or frozen (and thus denying them the right to natural development)?
This is the point. There are indeed good chance of curing many diseases using embryonic stem cells but not mature (and therefore not removing the embryos), while there are no similar opportunity to go beyond the issue before a human embryo created in vitro, and marked by flaws or less severe. We do not have the ability to use other ways out: either we respect the human embryo to the end as a human being in its own right, or see it as a res nullius and eugenics to abolish or to condemn cryopreservation. I would add that we are not talking about embryonic or fetal therapies that are legitimate, if not involve the removal of the curate.
Maybe in future we can make diagnosis on separate male and female gametes in order to select the best ones before fertilization, but beyond the current state of research on this, this would lead to a complete separation of procreation and reproduction in the test tube natural, ie, at IVF and more however, which in turn suggests the human being as a mere laboratory product: made, not begotten.
The main problem for the future of men who wish to conduct unconditional respect for the human race and all its member concerns the unlawful removal of defective embryo. Eugenics present, smooth and democratic, rejects with horror the suspicion of being assimilated to the Nazis, then from which it differs dramatically: while the Nazis were practicing positive un'eugenetica aiming to improve the Aryan, and a negative by the removal of deemed inferior races and individuals "calibrated", the current Eugenics aims above all not to be born with disabilities. It reserves the final say on how it should be the man to see themselves granted the right to be born, although the right to life of the carrier of genetic diseases is equal to that of the healthy. Eugenics high tech, specialized, utilitarian suggests that for people with disabilities applies the saying "Better dead than alive." For the eugenic way is to attack the disease by suppressing the patient, do not war according to the patient.
Vittorio Possenti
Source: http://www.avvenire.it/
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