ETHICAL ASPECTS OF GENETIC COUNSELING AND SELECTIVE ABORTION

ETHICAL ASPECTS OF GENETIC COUNSELING AND SELECTIVE ABORTION

Genetic counseling is a communication process which deals with human problems associated with the occurrence, or the risk of occurrence of genetic disorder in a family. A primary goal of genetic selection is to increase capacity to diagnosis, treat and eliminate genetic disorders by selective abortion. according to importance and delicacy of these issues, present study evaluates the knowledge and outlook of medical students before and after passing genetic course. The results show the knowledge of medical students before passing genetic course is very low, and it is not increased enough after passing genetic course. However, they have right beliefs but mercilessness to abnormal foetus. In conclusion , medical genetics progresses very fast and in the early future could eliminate some of genetic disorders, therefore education and justification of the medical staffs will be very important.