Genetics and the Supreme Court Nominee John Roberts
Sue Trinidad at the Women’s Bioethics Blog pointed to Jeffrey Rosen’s New York Times Magazine article on the confirmation hearings of Supreme Court nominee John Roberts - Roberts v. the Future. And the future, of course, involves the genetic revolution:
- Gene patents
- Genetic engineering
- Genetic screening of embryos
- Reproductive cloning
- Designer babies
- DNA tests to confirm or deny qualifications for affirmative action
These issues have been discussed here at the Genetics and Public Health Blog and will undoubtedly come up again. DNA technology is advancing rapidly and we are at the cusp of the genetic revolution.
We’ll need people like Supreme Court justices to help guide us. Hopefully, they’ll have everyone’s best interests in mind regardless of their “sex, race, color, ethnic or social origin, genetic features, language, religion or belief, political or other opinion, membership of a national minority, property, birth, disability, age or sexual orientation.” (From the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union.)
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