Legal Obligation or Satisfactory Authority of Eugenic Scheme and Selective Reproduction Based on Genetic Information

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One of the disadvantages of increased access to genetic test data is the likelihood of discrimination against people and abusing this data in the field of eugenics What is known as an attempt to limit the defective genetic trait, might in practice become a policy aimed at creating a specific race. This issue has led to the opposition of some people with any kind of coercive eugenics scheme based on genetic information. Therefore, identification and prevention of such abuses are of paramount importance from legal and jurisprudence point of view. On the other hand using genetic information to prevent the birth of a child with a particular disease which would result in hardship for an individual family and society, would have positive effects in order to eradicate such diseases. The present article is an interdisciplinary research which analytically and descriptively indicate the disadvantages of eugenics scheme, and prevention of it's misuse. This paper also aims at studying the eugenic scheme according to accepted principles of Iranian Islamic law and the Islamic human rights declaration (text).

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