Should Parents Discard Embryos at High Risk for Becoming Fat?
27th April 2025
I.e. ‘should parents kill potential children would be at high risk of becoming fat’?
Parents who opt to use Orchid get an extensive analysis of their embryos’ risk analysis for a variety of health conditions, including (but not limited to) autism, severe obesity, Alzheimer’s, inflammatory bowel disease, schizophrenia, diabetes, and breast cancer.
In a 2024 video, Orchid founder Noor Siddiqui compares the screening of two of her 16 embryos. Embryo 2 and Embryo 3, Siddiqui notes, are both “chromosomally normal.” But Embryo 3 has an elevated risk for breast cancer. Embryo 2, she adds, has an elevated risk for celiac disease.
Left unknown is whether either Embryo 2 or Embryo 3 will get a chance to grow up.
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