Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Moral Questions -- 1.2 The Dialectically Necessary Argument for Morality -- 1.3 Dialectically Contingent Arguments for the PGC -- 1.4 Conclusion -- Chapter 2 Moral Status: The Objects of Moral Concern -- 2.1 Grounds for Possession of Intrinsic Moral Status -- 2.2 Grounds for Possession of Intrinsic Moral Status Underpinning Current Regulation and Debate -- 2.3 To What Does the PGC Grant Intrinsic Moral Status in the Abstract, as Part of Its Ontology? -- 2.4 To What Does the PGC Grant Intrinsic Moral Status in Practice, as Part of Its Application to the Objects in the Empirical World? -- 2.5 Relevant Empirical Evidence -- 2.6 The Effect of Indirect Moral Status -- 2.7 The Content of Our Moral Obligations -- 2.8 Deriving Moral Obligations from the Generic Rights of Others -- Chapter 3 Prenatal Influence of Traits: Questioning the Present, Possible, and Probable -- 3.1 Understanding Heredity -- 3.2 Some Scientific Issues -- 3.3 Genetic Influence on Behaviour -- 3.4 Techniques of Prenatal Influence: Practice and Possibilities -- 3.5 Legal and Ethical Issues Raised by the Techniques of Prenatal Influence -- Chapter 4 Regulation of Genetic and Reproductive Techniques I: Prenatal Genetic Testing and Embryo-Fetal Research1 -- 4.1 Reiteration and Additional Remarks on the Application of the PGC -- 4.2 Comments on the Indirect Application of the PGC -- 4.3 Abortion and Prenatal Diagnosis (PND) -- 4.4 Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) -- 4.5 Research and Experimental Treatment on the Embryo-Fetus -- 4.6 Conclusion -- Chapter 5 Regulation of Genetic and Reproductive Techniques II: Cloning and Prenatal Gene Therapy1 -- 5.1 Cloning Humans -- 5.2 Arguments Against Cloning -- 5.3 Arguments in Favour of Cloning -- 5.4 Regulation of Cloning