Innledning
Advances in the development of genetic technology have changed a lot over the years, from 1970 to today. This has led to this technology being used in various ways, such as genetically modifying plants, animals, and for medical use.
The latest is to apply this more and more to humans and the treatment of disease. One of the possibilities that arise is to genetically modify unborn children, but is this ethically, correct?
Utdrag
The societal costs of treating hereditary diseases are high, as are the personal costs of those affected.
As a society, one must pay for both medicine and treatment, and one must also pay for research and the payment of social support to those who are left out of working life.
Society pays the cost of treatment for people, these costs are high in Norway, but some then do not receive support for treatment.
The risk of gene therapy may be that when we change the cells of unborn children, we can make mistakes so that the child will lack characteristics.
In 1999, an eighteen-year-old died from gene therapy, when the doctors were to transfer the genes, a human error occurred that caused a virus. 17,000 patients, in the United States, have later died from the treatment.
The doctors did not have enough information about what caused the deaths. This type of treatment can be dangerous, and we have too little information.
Ethical issues with this technology are the danger of having a sorting society. This means that one must choose who is allowed to live, or who is wanted in society. Someone must then have the power to decide this.
For example, many people do not believe that having Down syndrome is a disease, but rather a way of being different.
Many people with Down syndrome argue that they do not want a society that would sort them out before they were born.
One result of this manner of wondering perhaps the pursuit of "the appropriate man." When you are open to discussing who should or should not, be born, then you can be faced with many issues.
Do you suddenly think that having learning difficulties is a disease? Will anyone think that being gay is a disease?.
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