Reflexões sobre a engenharia genética e a seleção embrionária sob a ótica do planejamento familiar

Abstract

The evolution of biological sciences provides humanity with incredible resolutions to problems that were previously considered impossible to solve, being the impossibility of having a child through natural methods one of them. Assisted human reproduction can be understood as an instrument for the faithful execution of important rights and, among these, we can mention the right to family planning. Through the use of genetic engineering and techniques such as embryonic selection, it became possible to satisfy the desire of many individuals to build a genetic and affective heritage through the family. However, there are important reflections on the subject that should be brought to the debate, such as, for example, the limits to the exercise of the right to family planning exercised through RHA techniques. Furthermore, there is a need to understand the arguments against the use of these techniques and to explain the reasons why the prohibition of their use is not an appropriate measure, given that these are necessary debates that will be addressed in the following lines.