Genetic Discrimination and Health Care; Ethical Reflections
One can be stigmatized by society for having been diagnosed by genetic analysis with a particular disease and then denied health and life insurance when the person at that moment is perfectly capable and without a serious medical condition. Furthermore, decisions regarding prenatal diagnosis to abort because the unborn has been tested positive for a genetic disease discriminate against their right to live. Prejudice, alienation and exclusion often accompany genetic associated diseases, even though persons have no control over a disorder that is not the result of willful behavior.