Argument Against PGD

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A socio-scientific issue is an issue (people have different opinions or viewpoints about it) that has both biological and social implications (consequences). PGD is therefore a socio-scientific issue, because many people have differing opinions about whether PGD should be allowed, and for what cases, and it has both biological consequences and social consequences. I will be exploring these opinions and implications in order to weigh up the significance of these consequences of PGD, so that I can form a personal opinion about PGD.

The Catholic Church is against PGD, for several reasons. They believe, because of their religion, that all life is a gift from God. They consider life to begin at fertilisation, and therefore as PGD implies the discarding …show more content…

They believe that as life begins at fertilisation, the embryo is a person with full rights that should be respected, and therefore discarding an embryo is akin to murder, and is doing harm to a person. “The fruit of human generation from the first moment of existence, that is to say, from the moment the zygote has formed, demands the unconditional respect that is morally due to the human being in his [or her] bodily and spiritual totality." [2] Therefore, the discarding of embryos, for any reason, is unacceptable. [3]” They also argue that we should not be selecting against genetic conditions as it implies that some lives are more ‘desirable’ than others, and that this is a sign of bad parenting: they believe that love should be unconditional and therefore parents should love their children regardless of genetic conditions, and discarding their ‘children’ with these conditions is not love, “A covenantal understanding of family highlights that family belonging is, of its nature, unconditional, a reflection of God's own unconditional love. The selection of certain traits in embryos introduces a "conditional" dimension into their existence: "Children are admitted to a family only if they pass a test, destroying the fabric of an unfolding

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