Story of Adam Nash
The story of Adam Nash inspired the author to write her best-selling novel My Sister’s Keeper. In 2000, Adam was one of 15 embryos chosen and conceived using PGD to be a potential bone marrow match for his older sister Molly, who’s suffering from Fanconi’s anaemia, which is an inherited blood disorder that leads to bone marrow failure.
It has been recognized as a remarkable achievement of reproductive and genetic technologies but has also been criticized as a dangerous first step toward genetic manipulation and designer babies.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/955644.stm
It has been recognized as a remarkable achievement of reproductive and genetic technologies but has also been criticized as a dangerous first step toward genetic manipulation and designer babies.
For full story, go to link below:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/955644.stm
A deaf lesbian couple chose to create a deaf child
As they looked for help with having children, a same-sex couple living near Washington approached a fertility clinic with an unusual request. The two women were looking for spermatozoa that would help them have a deaf child.
The clinic turned these two deaf women away for the simple reason that they exclude deaf men from sperm donation.
The couple eventually approached a deaf acquaintance with a history of deafness across multiple generations in his family. He agreed to donate spermatozoa, and the couple succeeded in having a deaf child.
They succeeded twice, first having a daughter and then a boy about 5 years later. At birth, the boy had a degree of hearing in one ear, and a physician recommended a hearing aid in order to capitalize on that capacity. The parents declined the recommendation, and they now have two functionally deaf children.
For full story, go to the link below:
http://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/283.full
The clinic turned these two deaf women away for the simple reason that they exclude deaf men from sperm donation.
The couple eventually approached a deaf acquaintance with a history of deafness across multiple generations in his family. He agreed to donate spermatozoa, and the couple succeeded in having a deaf child.
They succeeded twice, first having a daughter and then a boy about 5 years later. At birth, the boy had a degree of hearing in one ear, and a physician recommended a hearing aid in order to capitalize on that capacity. The parents declined the recommendation, and they now have two functionally deaf children.
For full story, go to the link below:
http://jme.bmj.com/content/28/5/283.full