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"The more you know about your DNA, the more you know about yourself."
— 23andMe.com
Our family legal system is built around inheritance rights. Yet it considers those rights only in monetary terms. Medical science is imploring us to rethink genetic inheritance rights as well. Reproductive technologies force us to consider if our genetic material is ours – solely – once it has been shared through natural reproduction or in a laboratory resulting in another life. If your genetic material, your DNA, becomes part of another human being, what right of privacy do you have, whether you raise the child or not? What rights do your offspring have to your DNA once it becomes his or hers? What responsibilities do biological parents have to the products of their DNA?
The Genetic Genealogical Chain of Life
Genetic and genealogy databases are growing every day, and will likely continue to gain in popularity as the costs of genetic sequencing tests drop. TV programs feature celebrities unlocking the secrets of their ancestors and fulfilling their natural curiosity. Ads for Ancestry.com, one...
— 23andMe.com
Our family legal system is built around inheritance rights. Yet it considers those rights only in monetary terms. Medical science is imploring us to rethink genetic inheritance rights as well. Reproductive technologies force us to consider if our genetic material is ours – solely – once it has been shared through natural reproduction or in a laboratory resulting in another life. If your genetic material, your DNA, becomes part of another human being, what right of privacy do you have, whether you raise the child or not? What rights do your offspring have to your DNA once it becomes his or hers? What responsibilities do biological parents have to the products of their DNA?
The Genetic Genealogical Chain of Life
Genetic and genealogy databases are growing every day, and will likely continue to gain in popularity as the costs of genetic sequencing tests drop. TV programs feature celebrities unlocking the secrets of their ancestors and fulfilling their natural curiosity. Ads for Ancestry.com, one...