Who gets born? Pre-birth testing

Toi te Taiao: the Bioethics Council is working on an issue which touches the lives of many men, women, and children: pre-birth testing.

The Council is using a form of deliberative dialogue for this project. The stages are

1. a public framing of the issue
2. the public deliberation

Both these stages are now complete and the Council is currently considering what it heard and developing its advice to the government.

The Council would like to thank the hundreds of people who took part in the public framing and face-to-face and on-line deliberation.

You can still explore pre-birth testing by:

• downloading “Who gets born? Pre-birth testing”
• going to the deliberation website where you can find out about your own values regarding pre-birth testing using an interactive choicebook, read a selection of New Zealand stories and see how small groups of New Zealanders worked towards their collective recommendations to government by deliberating on-line.

More Information

If you would like any further information about this project or deliberative dialogue, please email prebirth@bioethics.org.nz or phone our Programme Leader, John Pennington, at (04) 439 7673.

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