ABSTRACT
This chapter starts with some general remarks about “philosophy of technique” to provide a wider conceptual framework for author’s reflections on the Ethical dilemmas due to prenatal and genetic diagnostics Study. In the course of the twentieth century and to date in the twenty-first century, the life sciences, biology and medicine, have become increasingly the dominant sciences. Through biomedical techniques, the formerly hidden foetus, whose health state and constitution were on the whole unknown, has become to a much larger degree available for our action than before the implementation of these techniques. Every technique increases our options for action and thus our responsibility. As already mentioned, technique is highly ambivalent. On the one hand, it magnifies our wish to increase the range and possibilities of submitting nature, including our human nature, to our manipulation, and creates availability by opening new options for our action.
