Abstract
Recent genetics and genetic counseling is discussed with respect to bioethics. From the standpoint of bioethics, human beings who has the right to live was called "person" and this right to live was can not denied by anyone. This concept of the right to live did not exclude the person who has congenital anomalies. And yet recent life science studies have revealed that abnormality is a valiation of normality, and that human society inevitably include a certain percentage of congenitally abnormal individuals. In Japan, fetuses 22 or more weeks old are protected by the Eugenic Protection Act. From a footing of the protect the right to live, parents have the right to decide of their fetuses less than 22 weeks old. Accordingly, parents have the right to obtain fetal information, including through amniotic fluid examination. In order to protect this right, society is obliged to improve examination facilities and to provide would-be parents with fetal information.
