Op-Ed: Parents and Parliament: The duty of beneficence as a key to regulating PGD

August 2, 2007

On 16 July, Progress Educational Trust (PET) held a highly successful debate in London, deliberating the role of parents and parliament in the decision-making process for the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Describing the procedure as a ‘disruptive technology’, John Wyatt, Professor of Neonatal Paediatrics at University College London, argued for an active role for state regulation in a process for which decisions should not be marginalised into a private sphere. (BioNews)