Genetic Testing Raises Ethical Issues Summary

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When comparing “Proposed Treatment to Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues” by Rob Stein, “Genetic Testing” by NYU Langone Medical Center and Misdiagnoses: A hidden risk of genetic testing by Jacqueline Howard, one can notice differences and similarities. The article “Proposed Treatment to Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues” is about some of the issues that arise due to a proposed treatment. The article “Genetic Testing” is about the genetic tests that exist and explains the ethical issues that genetic testing can create. The video Misdiagnoses: A hidden risk of genetic testing explains how a couple misinterpreted the genetic results they obtained. They did not see that their genetic test did not check for a specific disease …show more content…

In the video, the author included the experience of the Gold family whereas in the article “Proposed Treatment to Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues,” the author included the experience of Lori Martin. The article “Genetic Testing” also includes real life examples like that of Chloe Kondrich (NYU Langone Medical Center 6), George Doe (NYU Langone Medical Center 7) and Joseph Vlacovsky and John Mayfield (NYU Langone Medical Center 11). All 3 sources also include different issues that arise in the subject of the source. For example, the article “Genetic Testing” contains ethical issues like that of abortion (NYU Langone Medical Center 6), hurting families (NYU Langone Medical Center 8) and the risk of not obtaining insurance (NYU Langone Medical Center 11). The issue in the other article “Proposed Treatment to Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues” is that “if mistakes are made [in the mitochondria] … we’ll have introduced new genetic diseases” (Stein 3). The video states how a couple took a genetic test and misinterpreted the results. This couple believed they were safe and had children, but noticed otherwise after their second …show more content…

In addition, both articles describe steps parents or parents to be can take to have a healthy baby. In the article “Genetic Testing,” the author describes different types of tests in adults and embryos that diagnose diseases. An embryo can undergo preimplantation genetic diagnosis or they can undergo amniocentesis and an adult can undergo carrier testing. The video states how an adult can test for diseases in their ethnic group, so they could decide what they will do to be able to have a healthy baby. Both the video and the article “Proposed Treatment to Fix Genetic Diseases Raises Ethical Issues” discuss alternatives so parents can have a healthy baby. The video lists possible alternatives to having a healthy baby even if the parents have a disease. The video gives alternatives like using “an egg donor, a sperm donor, adopt and in vitro fertilization” (Howard, 2016), so a family could have a healthy baby without passing on any

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