Implications of genetic testing
- Created by: natwbu
- Created on: 24-07-14 14:34
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- Implications of genetic testing
- CVS
- Risk of infection
- risk of miscarriage
- Helps decide whether to terminate pregnancy.
- IVF+PGD
- can be considered as unethical
- It cant be used if you don't identify the faulty gene
- Not everyone who wants genetic testing can have one (access etc)
- Could be too expensive
- Might not always be reliable
- Could cause abortions
- Decisions could be hard, people might be uncertain whether to have kids or not
- Its not always 100% accurate
- doctors, family, employers, drug companies, insurance companies etc will have your results
- You could get a false positive or a false negative result.
- It takes a lot of strength, money, time, etc
- CVS
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