Showing posts with label Gina Kolata. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gina Kolata. Show all posts

Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Speaking of ethics

Image via The Guardian.
The New York Times medical correspondent Gina Kolata is terribly concerned about ethics, in this case the ethics of a woman carrying
the gene for Gerstmann-Straussler-Scheinker disease, or GSS, which would inevitably lead to her slow and terrible death.
Should she marry and undergo IVF treatments with her husband, test the embryos for the gene, and throw away those that have it? Or should she—what, exactly?