ABSTRACT
The discovery of DNA overwhelmed the world of health science as explorations into nanospace took on great significance. The task so far has been to explore how this marvelous discovery impacted procreative choices. Prenatal diagnosis (PND) and preimplantation diagnosis (PID) developed an avenue for tackling heritable diseases but, is the embryo itself compromised by recent trends in experimentation? Reproductive technology aspires to generate medical miracles—some of which are yet to come into existence. To date, the bottom line for a troubled pregnancy has been to interrupt it, which contradicts the Hippocratic Oath tradition that bid doctors not to abort the fetus. Most Western countries permit therapeutic and elective abortion. The previous chapter dealt with some of the discomforts and dilemmas women encounter as a result of reproductive technology, and it looked at how Western law systems dealt with these.
