Genetic discrimination

Slide 1: We did our project on Laws Protecting Genetic Information. What do we need to protection from? Genetic Discrimination. Slide 2: Genetic Discrimination is defined by the dictionary as: “an act or instance of discriminating, or of making a distinction based on one’s genetic information or hereditary traits.” While today there are few examples of genetic discrimination, in the future there could be numerous ways to genetically discriminate. For example, imagine if you were applying to university, and they made you send in a vial of your spit to test for intelligence genes to base their application decision on. This would be an example of genetic discrimination. Slide 3: Currently, in Canada; we have a law protecting us from genetic discrimination called Bill-S 201 or The Genetic Non-Discrimination Act. Introduced to parliament by MP: James Cowan and passed on March 8th, 2017, this law prohibits an individual to be required to disclose genetic information to any party that provides goods or services to the individual. This means employers, landlords, insurers, or people offering services or goods are prohibited to require your genetic information. There are two parties that are exempt from this law and they are: researchers and doctors.…

People are worried about being rejected for a job, because of their genetic information. No company should have the right to hire, fire or judge people based on their genetic background. Genetic discrimination is when people are treated unfairly because of the differences in their DNA and their chance of getting a disease. A number of laws have passed that have protected people under the law. For example, GINA, which protects people from genetic discrimination from employers and health insurance…

Technically all of the previous points discussed can be considered under the category of genetic discrimination. In this case any type of modification is going against the role of nature. Every path a person goes down is because they were destined to do so, even if it was not the right path, it still helped guide them to where they needed to be. Genetically enhancing genotypes in an unborn child is completely going against nature. Most people will agree in the matter of God brings children into…

legalities with genetic testing nor had I heard of any incidence within my organization. I agree with your discussion post, the manager likely was violating the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA). According to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), “Title II of the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 (GINA), which prohibits genetic information discrimination in employment, took effect on November 21, 2009.” The law prohibits employees from…

Race and ethnicity has little effect of genetic makeup, but it has a great effect on the level of care that an individual receives. There are many studies indicating that minority groups receive more expensive and lower quality health care. Some studies take a look at whether the site of care affects the quality of care among minority groups and how different lifestyle factors could also influence health. Using race in the health care system creates unnecessary discrimination. This…

Essay #1: Discrimination Through Genetic Screening Starting off, I believe discrimination through genetic screening can be justified. Greed is in human nature, either for money, property, and many more. Nobody would want to choose to live an horrible life without any money, food, and home. Like all others, entrepreneurs would want his/her business to have the best people that would fit well with their environment, but also somehow improve their business. So, I believe it would be reasonable for…

Lisa Genova’s Inside the O’Briens explores the impact of a genetic, neurological disease on a close-knit family. For this particular book, Genova selected to examine how Huntington’s disease can affect the relationships and lives of family members following a diagnosis. Joe O’Brien is the primary character targeted by this disease, but his family absorbs the shock via adjustments to symptoms and possible diagnosis later in life. Throughout this analysis, I will consider how Joe’s novel diagnosis…

Throughout all of history, discrimination has always existed in society, whether it is the poor against the rich, female against male or white against black. In the texts I have studied in class, the authors/directors have portrayed their views on the topic of discrimination. In my report I will analyse the overarching theme of “Discrimination will always be prevalent in society” present in my four texts and discuss the connections between them. My first two texts I studied were “Brave New…

population, prompted immense backlash against eugenics in the war’s aftermath and began the controversial discussion against human manipulation of genetic makeup (Eugenics, 2006). This is relative to the current public debate over the ethicality of human genetic engineering because often times the distinction between eugenics and human genetic engineering is lost. Genetic testing, the fundamental base of human genetic engineering, was…

on perfection. The tendencies of people to conceptualize utopian societies is for the use of comparing current society to how humans may better organize themselves in the future. In both Aldous Huxley's Brave new world and, the Academy Award winning movie “Gattaca” we are shown the concepts, each artist conveys to be the future outcome if society were to Utopianize. Genetic discrimination,…