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Should parents be allowed to know their fetus will get Alzheimer’s?

by Jim Bakken

February 18, 2014
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From: Chicago Sun-Times
In the Jan. 16 New England Journal of Medicine, Ilana Yurkiewicz of Harvard Medical School, Lisa Soleymani Lehmann of Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and Bruce Korf of the University of Alabama at Birmingham argue that it is ethical to provide parents with prenatal whole genome sequencing information about their prospective children.

http://www.suntimes.com/news/otherviews/25597595-452/should-parents-be-allowed-to-know-their-fetus-will-get-alzheimers.html

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