Key Points
Bullet points, reflecting the most important issues of my chapter
• Quality in genetic services presupposes clear, consistent and well-argued for ethical premises.
• Without such premises, priorities, public confidence and quality of genetic services are likely to be negatively affected.
• Choice of alternative formulations or provisions in quality assurance guidelines are based on, and intended to protect, ethical values.
• Sometimes there are tensions in our culture between these values, which give rise to ethical conflicts or problems.
• Ethical condiderations enter into several different levels of discourse, five of which are discussed in the present chapter.