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12 J.L. & Health 121 (1997-1998)
Prenatal Genetic Screening: The Enigma of Selective Abortion

handle is hein.journals/jlah12 and id is 127 raw text is: PRENATAL GENETIC SCREENING: THE ENIGMA OF SELECTIVE ABORTION DAVID STOLLER1 I. INTRODUCTION .................................... 122 II. SCIENTIFIC TECHNIQUES .............................. 123 A . A m niocentesis ................................ 123 B. Chorionic Villi Sampling (CVS) .................. 123 C. In Vitro Fertilization ........................... 124 III. THE HUMAN GENOME PROJECT ........................ 124 IV . ETHICAL ISSUES .................................... 125 A . Eugenics ..................................... 126 1. Types of Eugenics ......................... 126 2. Government Attempts at Eugenic Control ..... 126 3. Therapeutic and Non-Therapeutic Traits ...... 128 4. Sex-Selection .............................. 130 B . C ost ........................................ 131 C. Discrimination/Dehumanization ................. 131 V. LEGAL FRAMEWORK ................................ 133 A. Abortion Related Law .......................... 133 1. Case Law ................................. 133 2. Statutory Law ............................. 136 a. State Abortion Statutes .................... 136 b. Partial Birth Abortion Legislation ........... 137 B. What if Roe was Overturned? .................... 137 C. Procreative Freedom ........................... 138 VI. CONCLUSION ..................................... 139 In the survival of favoured individuals and races, during the constantly-recurring Struggle for Existence, we see a powerful and ever-acting form of Selection... Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely the production of the higher animals, directly follows. Charles Darwin, ORIGIN OF SPECIES 1B.S., University of Michigan, 1992; J.D., Nova Southeastern University, 1996. Member of the Florida Bar and currently employed by the United States Department of Justice, Immigration and Naturalization Service as an Assistant District Counsel in Miami, Florida.