PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - R Ashcroft
TI  - Bach to the future: response to: Extending preimplantation genetic diagnosis: medical and non-medical uses
AID  - 10.1136/jme.29.4.217
DP  - 2003 Aug 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 217--219
VI  - 29
IP  - 4
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/29/4/217.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/29/4/217.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2003 Aug 01; 29
AB  - Professor Robertson sketches an elegant framework for policy evaluation and regulation of the use of preimplantation genetic diagnosis for various medical, medical related, and non-medical purposes. In criticism of his position, I argue that the distinction between policy and ethics upon which his argument relies is highly unstable, and the approach taken to ethical evaluation of particular parental interests leaves open many issues which the policy approach would hope to exclude. In conclusion I argue that while his position ultimately fails, the onus is on his critics to come up with a viable and satisfying alternative.