Genetic Screening - I am presenting for my case study is whether or not genetic screening is bad. Many people argue the negative and positive sides of genetic screening and how good or bad it might be.

            All of the above reasons agree to genetic screening being good.

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          -However genetic screening has some negative factors against it, and for some people they will agree with the following points against genetic screening:

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GENETIC SCREENING MIGHT BE RISKY BECAUSE IT CAN GO WRONG- for doctors especially

GENETIC SCREENING IS BAD TO RELIGIOUS PEOPLE (Jehovah’s witnesses ,Buddhist monks, nirones/priests & nuns) BECAUSE THEY BELIVE ONCE A NEW LIFE IS ABOUT TO BE BORN IT SHOULD BE LEFT TO LIVE ITS LIFE

GENETIC SCREENING WOULD HAVE ANOTHER RELIGIOUS NEGATIVE POINT AS IT WILL INTERFEAR WITH GODS WORK.

ANOTHER REASON FOR WHY GENETIC SCREENING CAN BE BAD IS THAT

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 Gene screening process?  

The decision about whether to use genetic screening is taken by government and local NHS trusts.people in the NHS

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Here is a table showing results of the thousands of people who were genetic screened in the U.S.A, over six years:

Reference: New Scientist magazine issue 349.

Maria Goldstein is a scientist from Munich She wrote a book in German in 2003 explaining about genes and characteristics. In chapter 7 of her book, she started describing the ways in which genetic screening has helped ever since it was first introduced in. She then quotes “My Uncle had

                             

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Genetic screening is a process that helps a person find out whether or not they are a carrier of a curtain disease, or have faulty genes within their body.

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In conclusion to my case study, genetic screening has many positive and negative points. Many people have reasons on why they think genetic screening is good or bad, from moral and religious points of view it will be interfering with gods work, and for some parents and health workers might find it good because they think it’s a good process to get rid of diseases and unnatural births –e.g. two joint embryos, one leg bigger than the other.

                                        But I personally believe genetic screening is harsh and should be banned unless needed. I think this because if you have a newborn baby it deserves the right to live, but it will reach a curtain point were when the baby is born it will be hard to cure the baby or even take care of it due to medicine or expenses, so if it reaches those type of situations then the careers/parents of the baby should choose to screen their embryos.

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CASE STUDY References-

-Twenty first century science, oxford, gcse OCR biology.

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