Huntington's disease: prenatal screening for late onset disease
This article presents a set of moral arguments regarding the selective abortion of fetuses on the basis of prenatal screening for late onset genetic diseases only, and for Huntington's Disease* in particular. After discussion of human suffering, human perfection and the distinctive features of...
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1992
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Journal of medical ethics
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