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You stated a valid point Gracela that healthcare providers and companies might use genetic engineering such as Preimplantation Genetic disorder (PGD) for profit instead of what is ethically and morally appropriate. People have a different point of views over the legal and moral status of embryos and the nonexistence of regulation in the USA makes us a breeding ground for reproductive tourism for patients coming from other countries with stricter guidelines on the use of PGD (Bayefsky, 2017). Totally agree with you that a policy is needed, and definitely, an intense argument will ensue on how to resolve this kind of ethical dilemma if the US legislators decided to regulate

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