Tom Chivers: The wrongs, the rights, of genetic engineering for children: Summary and Analysis (Analyse eines Zeitungsartik­els in Englisch)
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The wrongs, the rights, of genetic screening for children - Tom Chivers Summary and Analysis The newspaper articles, headed “The wrongs, and rights of genetic screening for children” written by Tom Chivers and publicized August 16th 2012, concerns itself with risks and chances of genetic screening. At the outset the author sets a quote of a professor of ethics at Oxford in which he states that parents are ethically obliged to genetic examination. Examinations shouldn’t be performed in interest of eugenics, but out of free will. Furthermore, he complaints about the public outrage. In his sight it’s meaningless to bewail that someone lives by chance and usually would not be living, if he wasnt chosen as the donor embryo. Not least because we’re all a result of chance. According to Chivers, genetic screening is vitally important…[show more]