‘Genetic testing of embryos needs serious engagement with experts’
“For countries like the UK it took decades to set up such a service that had to include specialists from the scientific, medical, ethical and social field and to have the necessary infrastructure”
29 April 2021, 10:24am
by Matthew Vella
The dean of the University of Malta’s Faculty for Social Wellbeing has asked for a serious engagement with stakeholders over ethical issues concerning PGD – the genetic testing and selection of embryos prior to implantation.
The proposal was floated by health minister and deputy prime minister Chris Fearne on a TV programme in which he called on the Opposition to agree with forthcoming amendments to Malta’s IVF law.
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