Moving Up the Slippery Slope: Mandated Genetic Screening on Cyprus
Moving Up the Slippery Slope: Mandated Genetic Screening on Cyprus
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DOI：
10.1002/ajmg.c.30202
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发表时间：
2009-02-15
影响因子：
3.1
通讯作者：
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
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作者：
Cowan, Ruth Schwartz
许多社会科学家和生物伦理学家认为，基因筛查是优生学的一种新形式。对塞浦路斯共和国β-地中海贫血准强制筛查计划发展情况的审查（1970-1984）表明，现代基因筛查实践并不具有优生性。塞浦路斯筛查计划包括强制婚前携带者筛查、自愿产前诊断（最初通过胎儿镜检查，现在通过CVS）以及自愿终止受影响的妊娠——所有这些均由公共费用承担。在塞浦路斯共和国，基因筛查的授权机构是既定的教会，因此这项研究还表明，强烈反对堕胎的宗教当局可以平衡这一道德戒律与其他道德戒律，例如减少有时与之相冲突的痛苦的必要性。 (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
Many social scientists and bioethicists have argued that genetic screening is a new form of eugenics. Examination of the development of the quasi-mandated screening program for beta-thalassemia in the Republic of Cyprus (1970 1984) demonstrates that there is nothing eugenic about modern genetic screening practices. The Cypriot screening program involves mandated premarital carrier screening, voluntary prenatal diagnosis (originally through fetoscopy, now through CVS), and voluntary termination of afflicted pregnancies-all at public expense. In the Republic of Cyprus, the mandating agency for genetic screening is the established church, so this examination also demonstrates that religious authorities with profound objections to abortion can balance that moral precept against others, such as the imperative to reduce suffering that sometimes conflict with it. (C) 2009 Wiley-Liss, Inc.