
Reproduction
New Prenatal Genetic Screens Pose Underappreciated Ethical Dilemmas
Noninvasive screens that look for abnormal fetal genomes often reveal hard-to-interpret results, raising challenging questions about selective abortion and eugenics
Daniel Navon is an associate professor of sociology at the University of California, San Diego, and author of Mobilizing Mutations: Human Genetics in the Age of Patient Advocacy. Follow him on Twitter: @Dan_Navon.
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