"Saviour siblings"
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Should selecting saviour siblings be banned?
By using tissue typing in conjunction with preimplantation genetic diagnosis doctors are able to pick a human embryo for implantation which, if all goes well, will become a "saviour sibling", a brother or sister capable of donating life-saving tissue to an existing child. This paper addresses the question of whether this form of selection should be banned and concludes that it should not. Three...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Medical Ethics
سال: 2002
ISSN: 0306-6800
DOI: 10.1136/jme.28.5.289