Selection through prenatal diagnosis and preimplantation diagnosis

In the context of biomedicine the term ‘selection’ is understood to refer to a decision for or against one or more human beings, namely for quantitative reasons in connection with surplus embryos or multiple pregnancies, or for qualitative reasons in connection with prenatal diagnosis (PND) and preimplantation diagnosis (PID). The qualitative reasons for selective actions can again be divided into medical and non-medical reasons.