Prenatal Genetic Diagnostics and the Moral Implications Thereof

Abstract

Globalization and technology have impacted nearly every aspect of modern life, hence without a doubt, remarkable advances have been made in prenatal diagnostics, and its significance in people’s lives has been considerable. Although one may speak of the so–called bright and dark sides of prenatal diagnostics, one should always bear in mind that science and technology must honour moral principles unconditionally. Human beings must be protected from conception to natural death which makes our topic a human dignity issue. Thus, the first part of the article explicitly deals with prenatal diagnostics as also with the methods related to it, while a moral–bioethical viewpoint is presented in the second section. No betterment is possible for the future of mankind without a symbiosis between genetics and ethics; accordingly, prenatal diagnostics must be studied through the prism of ethics and morality.