Commentators face off on genetic engineering
February 6th, 2012
In response to the debate over genetic modification that has been sparked by the illness of Maria Fernandez, Trans-human activist Melissa Gebrezghi faced off with Alliance Civil Liberties Coalition head Wolfgang Hartmann in a Future Content Corporation broadcast debate. Gebrezghi argued that the Alliance should not allow parents to opt out of in-utero modifications for serious illnesses. “We’d arrest parents who poison their children,” she said. “But it’s okay for them to force their children to live with severe, possible fatal, genetic illnesses?” Hartmann rebutted that medical decisions should be in the hands of parents. “Free society depends on choice,” he said. “Are we to force submission to medical treatments? How is that freedom?”
Tags: Alliance Civil Liberties Coalition, FCC, Future Content Corporation, genetic modification, Maria Fernandez, Melissa Gebrezghi, Systems Alliance, Wolfgang Hartmann
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