Avoidance Versus Elimination. How Can We Harm Less? How Can We Do Rather Good? Embryo Selection Through In Vitro Fertilization Versus Germline Gene Editing

Beáta  Laki

doi:10.25167/sth.5285

Avoidance Versus Elimination. How Can We Harm Less? How Can We Do Rather Good?

Embryo Selection Through In Vitro Fertilization Versus Germline Gene Editing

Beáta Laki

University of Pécs
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6348-8483

DOI : https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.5285

Résumé

The present article focuses on hereditary genetic disorders which is specified and evaluated through comparative analysis. This comparison extends on highlighting a few
factors in connection with avoidance through IVF embryo selection procedure and elimination, removal through germline gene editing. Focusing on the later listed factors the author introduces a new perspective of moral evaluation of the mentioned procedures. With the explanation of the dilemma, according to showing the factors and with the analysis of their effects the paper concludes that it is conceivable based on the factors discussed here that avoiding the appearance of genetic disease through IVF embryo selection is morally more
acceptable, given the current state of science and technology, than the direct modification, intervention into the germline.

Mots-clés :

IVF embryo selection, germline gene editing, safety, expected harm, responsibility, freedom

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Laki, B. . (2023). Avoidance Versus Elimination. How Can We Harm Less? How Can We Do Rather Good? Embryo Selection Through In Vitro Fertilization Versus Germline Gene Editing. Studia Teologiczno-Historyczne Śląska Opolskiego, 43(2), 119–137. https://doi.org/10.25167/sth.5285

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Beáta Laki
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6348-8483

PhD of philosophy, senior lecturer at the Department of Behavioral Sciences of the University of Pécs, Hungary.

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