Curing genetic defects of infants in the womb.

August 12, 2006

Re: Worried about de-selecting autistic fetuses, now look what is here! Dearest Doctor,Instead of tomtomming your "achievements" please let us know whatcould be the side effects of this procedure. Previously too yourprofession has promised heaven and we are in hell.Can you also let us know why our condition has come to such a statethat we are having an epidemic of genetic disorders that have to benow corrected in the womb?Can you also let us know how the babies will react to this invasionof the womb? Can you also let us know whether this procedure will notresult in selective abortions? Can you also let us know what longterm tests will be conducted to examine the safety of this procedure. Till date we know that tests with GE drugs have resulted in sevenpatients now being severely ill and in danger of developing cancer.We

shudder to think about the consequences of direct geneticmanipulations and their runaway effects as warned by geneticengineers themselves.Will this "facility" be available right now or through thisdeclaration your profession is buying time. As many doctors havepromised me that in the next 50 to 60 years they will be able toensure a "disease free, made to order" humanity. Observing thedirection we are headed right now, the statement seems a bit farfetched to us. This statement also implies that the medical industryis experimenting on us while it seeks a "final solution". A veryscary thought.Excuse me, but many of us have lost faith in your profession. We areno longer in a mood to accept anything unquestioningly just as you todo not like to accept the hypothesis of other time tested modes ofhealing that have served us through thousdands of years unless youfind them suitable to your

requirements.Regards,Jagannath.@, " wrote:>> http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/355/6/541>> Preimplantation Diagnosis for Genetic Susceptibility> Peter Braude, M.B., B.Ch., Ph.D. "Our ideal is not the spirituality that withdraws from life but the conquest of life by the power of the spirit." - Aurobindo.

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