Category Genetic Technologies
Buying Sperm: Canada’s Ethical Tension
Natalie Martin argues that buying sperm from the US while outlawing the purchase of sperm from donors within Canada just doesn’t make sense.
Polygenic Risk Scores to Select Embryos: A Need for Societal Debate
Hazar Haidar discusses the need for a societal debate to explore challenges related to polygenic embryo screening.
Genetic Discrimination: Provincial & Territorial Laws Needed
Leah Hutt and Elaine Gibson propose that Federal legislation is insufficient to fully protect the genetic information of Canadians, so provinces and territories must enact laws and regulations within their jurisdictions that can help to ensure further protection for all Canadians from genetic discrimination.
Mining The Rock: Benefit-sharing and Human Genetic Research
Janelle Skeard outlines the importance of establishing an ethical benefit-sharing framework for research using genetic material from Newfoundland and Labrador.
Prison sentence for creator of first CRISPR babies
Françoise Baylis calls for a critical analysis of the institutional context that contributed to the actions for which He Jiankui has been sentenced to prison.
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