Burden Quote by Anonymous

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

— Bob Edwards

No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.

— Margaret Sanger

If we go too far down the road of choosing the genetic traits of children, my worry is that parenting will be less a…

— Michael Sandel

I think it's the most responsible thing you can do, to have kids. It's not something to be taken lightly. I don't have that…

— George Clooney

Knowing your genetic health risks will help you make better decisions.

— Anne Wojcicki

“but perhaps within the next five to ten years, certain inborn errors . . . will be treated or cured by the administration of a certain gene…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

“The right to health care provides insurance against the misfortune of having bad genes.”

— Jean Tirole

“our own. It is critical not to feel obliged to inherit something that doesn’t belong to us. Or to misread the bond with our…

— Judith Orloff

“As we’re about to see, by striving for even greater genetic perfection we might be eliminating a lot more than just millions of people…

— Sharon Moalem

“The increasing fascination with and funding of genetic technology is simply another medical dead end, another reductionist rabbit hole that will lead us no…

— T. Colin Campbell

Many families would like to avoid burdening future generations with inherited diseases such as haemophilia or severe developmental disorders. But most would think it…

— Mark Walport

“the popular conception of the gene as a simple causal agent is not valid. The idea that there is a gene for adventurousness, heart…

— Eva Jablonka