Introducing controversial technologies into the public health system: walking the tightrope between ethical imperatives and state neutrality 

Introducing ethically controversial technologies into the public health system inevitably provokes societal and legal conflict. The consideration of ethical and religious concerns in state decisions raises a problem of legitimacy. By adopting the position that the state must act in an ethically neutral manner, the project analyses the relationship between ethics and law and its implications for the public health system. The examination adopts a comparative, legal-constitutional perspective and investigates two case studies: preimplantation genetic diagnosis and non-invasive prenatal testing.