Fertility treatment in Germany

BioNews - Fertility treatment in Germany: Germany is said to have one of the most restrictive legislation in the area of assisted reproductive technology treatments. Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) has only become permissible as of July this year – it can now be carried out if the child will be born with a severe genetic disease, or if the embryo is so severely impaired that the pregnancy will result in a miscarriage or stillbirth.

Editor: PGD is not a "fertility treatment" but is the means by which diseases and impairments are detected in embryos before they are implanted into a mother's uterus. Also, PGD cannot determine the severity of a disability. 


You would think a bionews resource would be more accurate. It constantly amazes me how fuzzy and fudge-y journalists are on these issues, after years of covering this beat and on a website dedicated to science and ethics. Why is it so hard?