CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2013
| Author | Bodolai, Anna Borbála |
|---|---|
| Title | One model two approaches? A comparison of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis' regulation in the UK and in Germany |
| Summary | This thesis is a comparison of Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis’ (PGD) regulation in the UK and in Germany. PGD is a new technique, developed in the 1990s and primarily used for selecting in-vitro fertilized embryos before implantation. Originally PGD was developed for therapeutic use to enable couples who are at increased risk of having a child with a genetic disorder, to be free from the potential burden of giving birth to a child suffering from a serious genetically inheritable disease or of the prospective termination of the pregnancy. The technology has undergone a significant development since the 1990s and current applications of PGD have also the potential to screen for such genetic conditions that are unrelated to medical necessity. Currently no international regulation exists for PGD and different states choose different strategies based on the specific countries’ moral and ethical principles. For the first sight, the regulations in the UK and in Germany appear somewhat similar and this thesis aims to clarify whether these two regulations are truly similar. I suggest at the end of the paper that labeling these two regulations differently (liberal v. conservative or pragmatic v. normative) is well founded. After the introduction I will list several human rights arguments and ethical concerns for or against potential applications of PGD. In the third chapter European perspectives of PGD’s regulations is shown. The fourth chapter is about the comparison between the two regulations in the UK and Germany and their potential effect on the technology’s future development. |
| Supervisor | Professor Judit Sándor |
| Department | Legal Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2013/bodolai_anna-borbala.pdf |
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