[Health Concern] Blood tests detect 100 baby illnesses in the Future. In the future, with just taking a bit of maternal blood samples for DNA examination, will be known a variety of conditions and disorders of the baby. Not only the disease down syndrome, but also eye color, height, depression and
cancer risk, to risk the child will become gay or heterosexual.
Indeed, all the progress that is still in research stage. But scientists are eager to explore this, and is expected in the not too distant future it will be realized. Now, experts is discussing the ethical aspects of these new findings.
To examine fetal DNA from maternal blood sample will no doubt be a great advancement in medicine and handling of the pregnancy. "But to make that happen in everyday practice is very risky on the legal aspects, ethical and socially," said Jaime King, from UC Hastings College of Law who explore the field of genetic testing.
These ethical and social issues arise because of the concerns of prospective parents would choose an abortion after the results of DNA tests show the baby they were "not good enough" to be born.
It has long been the medical world knows fetal DNA sampling procedure with minimal risk of miscarriages. But by taking the mother's blood sample, the risk of miscarriage was almost non-existent.
These advances make many pregnant women are interested in checking DNA to find out various things about the condition of her fetus. These test results can be known even since the early pregnancy was so scared of opening the opportunity to undertake an abortion.
In a study published late last year, scientists interested in DNA technology have been able to reconstruct the genetic baby with the correct part of fetal DNA from maternal blood circulation. These advances, coupled with falling prices of DNA analysis will open the door to the examination of individual genes. The result will be far more accurate than current tests.
Hank Greely, law professor from Stanford University, in 5-10 years from now doctors will be able to reveal the type of disease is only 100-200 of the DNA examination. "Examination of pregnancy will give much information about the genetic child," he said.
Such information is useful to one side, but at the same time raises questions about the responsibility of the prospective parents who do genetic engineering. Not to mention the mental readiness of the parents.
When a child is born with a condition that has been known since the beginning, the existence of this test will change "from something that happened", to something that has been anticipated.
In the end, all pregnant women will feel obliged to perform this examination because they feel it is part of the responsibilities of parenthood.
"If parents are told the child's illness or condition in adulthood, then they will spend much time worrying about the child's condition even though nothing could be done to change it," said King.
In the future, such checks will continue to grow even researching a variety of genes. "If the restriction is not made from now, will the prospective parents have been told that since contain her breast cancer risk 60 percent or 30 percent will be gay," said Dr.Brian Skotko, a member of the National Down Syndrome Society.
In social aspects, King said this prenatal diagnosis would be a way to "cure" disease by performing an abortion on the baby. Once opened the Pandora's box, it is difficult to close it again.
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source : health.kompas.com
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