Human Genetics Alert
{{Short description|Watchdog group based in London, England}}
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| formation = 1999
| founder = David King
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| fields = Human genetics
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| leader_title = Director
| leader_name = David King
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| formerly = Campaign Against Human Genetic Engineering
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Human Genetics Alert (abbreviated HGA) is a secular, independent watchdog group based in London, England. It advocates against uses of reproductive technology and human genetics research that it considers harmful.{{cite web |title=Participant Detail |url=http://www.biopolitics-berlin2003.org/participants.asp?id=302&od=1 |website=Within and Beyond the Limits to Human Nature |accessdate=13 February 2019}}
History
Human Genetics Alert was founded in 1999 as the Campaign Against Human Genetic Engineering. It was reborn as Human Genetics Alert (HGA) in December 2000, at which point it began to receive funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust. HGA stopped receiving funding from the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust in 2005.{{cite web |title=About Human Genetics Alert |url=http://www.hgalert.org/aboutUs/ |website=Human Genetics Alert |accessdate=13 February 2019}} As of December 2018, its director was David King.{{cite press release |title=Civil society calls for "International Summit on Human Genome Editing" to condemn gene-edited baby claims and experiments |url=https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/press-statement/civil-society-calls-international-summit-human-genome-editing-condemn-gene-edited |website=Center for Genetics and Society |accessdate=13 February 2019 |date=29 November 2018}}
Positions
Human Genetics Alert states that it is not opposed to all genetics research, but that it is opposed to certain proposed uses of it, including human genetic engineering, human cloning, and genetic discrimination.{{cite book |last1=Guides |first1=Rough |title=The Rough Guide to Genes & Cloning |date=2007 |publisher=Rough Guides UK |isbn=9781848362246 |page=279 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3XmhP14wkcC&pg=PA279 |language=en}} The organization has also opposed prenatal sex selection{{cite book |last1=Gilbert |first1=Scott F. |last2=Gilbert |first2=Scott |last3=Tyler |first3=Anna L. |last4=Zackin |first4=Emily |title=Bioethics and the New Embryology: Springboards for Debate |date=2005 |publisher=Macmillan |isbn=9780716773450 |page=104 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Jg23QzWT6m4C&pg=PA106 |language=en}} and the proposal that led to the establishment of the UK Biobank.{{cite journal |last1=Godard |first1=B. |last2=Marshall |first2=J. |last3=Laberge |first3=C. |last4=Knoppers |first4=B. M. |title=Strategies for consulting with the community: The cases of four large-scale genetic databases |journal=Science and Engineering Ethics |date=September 2004 |volume=10 |issue=3 |pages=457–477 |doi=10.1007/s11948-004-0003-y|pmid=15362702 |url=https://depot.erudit.org/id/002741dd |hdl=1866/138 |hdl-access=free }}
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.hgalert.org/}}
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Category:Bioethics research organizations
Category:Genetics in the United Kingdom
Category:Genetics organizations
Category:Organizations established in 1999