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KMID : 1172020040050020001
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Journal of Korean Bioethics Association
2004 Volume.5 No. 2 p.1 ~ p.15
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Preimplantion Genetic Diagnosis(PGD)and future of human: centered on critique of liberal eugenics in Habermas
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Yang Hae-Rim
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Abstract
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The article consists two parts. The article aims at am ethical review of Preimplantion Genetic Diagnosis(PGD) and gene therapy. I try to understand the ethical significance by centering on critique of liberal eugenics in Habermas. The scientific and technological progress offers many possibilities of intervention in the initial phases on human life. Germans are particularly sensitive about using embryonic stem for research because of human-research because of human-research abuses during the Nazi era. Habermas argue that such cells should be subject to constitutional human rights. Nonetheless, part of the individuality and dignity of s person probably lies in the uniqueness and unpredictability of his or her development. The notion of human dignity is often also linked to Kantian ethics. The Kantian principle, which is generally interpreted as demanding that individual should never be thought of as a means but always also an end, crudely invoked, as it usually is, without any qualification or gloss, is seldom helpful in a medical or bioscience context. Of course some will think that the embryo is a full member of the moral community with all the rights and protections possessed by Kant himself. An embryo can split to form two or more viable embryos an any stage up to gastrulation, when its cells begin to migrate into distinct layers that form the basis of the adult body plan. The eugenic gene selection of embryos would give critical harm to the persons who are not born if they have the right to life. Preimplantion Genetic Diagnosis, genetic uses an embryo’s genetic Information, must not be used to determine an embryo’s gender or to choose a superior embryo, but it may be used to prevent a hereditary disease when parent’s decisive power over procreation, their right to pursue happiness. Ultimate, the criteria of approval must be strictly fixed and applied.
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KEYWORD
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Preimplation Genetic Diagnosis(PDG), gene therapy, Habermas, Knat, eugenic gene selection of embryos
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