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rlane42

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George Annas believes that, historically,
 
  a) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could justify the view that abortion is permissible because the fetus would be better off dead.
  b) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could be rectified by genetic therapies.
  c) prenatal screening has been used as a substitute for elective abortion.
  d) all of these choices.

Question 2

The aim of decreasing the number of undesirable or harmful genes in the human population is called
 
  a) positive eugenics
  b) negative eugenics
  c) the Human Genome Project
  d) neutral eugenics



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Answer to Question 1

a) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could justify the view that abortion is permissible because the fetus would be better off dead.

Answer to Question 2

b) negative eugenics



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