PRENATAL GENETIC TESTING Running Head: PRENATAL GENETIC TESTING Prenatal Genetic Testing and The Ethical Controversies SBI3U 15 April 2015 1 PRENATAL GENETIC TESTING 2 Prenatal Genetic Testing and The Ethical Controversies Introduction Every introduction should start with a shocking fact about the topic, generally to piqué the interest of the reader. The problem is,
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2) DEFINITIONS 3) ETHICAL THEORY 4) ETHICAL DECISION MAKING 5) NEGLIGENCE 6) CONSENT IN COMPETENT ADULTS 7) CONSENT IN CHILDREN 8) CONSENT IN INCOMPETENT ADULTS 9) CONSENT CONCERNING UNUSUAL IDEAS 10) ADVANCE DIRECTIVES 11) CONFIDENTIALITY 12) CONFIDENTIALITY AUDIT 13) EUTHANASIA 14) ABORTION 15) BIOTECHNOLOGY 16) SUGGESTED READING ONE – INTRODUCTION (Registrar) The importance of Ethical thinking in General Practice
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Chapter One Ethics 301 Dr. Waibel 1/22/13 Abortion is an ethical issue that many people are debating about. Chapter one in the book Social Issues: Morality and Social Policy discusses the issue of abortion. This chapter starts out discussing the reasons a woman may get an abortion. The first reason is if the fetus was to come to term the mother, for various reasons, could die. The second reason is the woman’s physical and/or mental health could be affected if the pregnancy continued. Third reason
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Mashell Chapeyama Zimbabwe This week we looked at the relationship between family planning, life expectancy and economic growth. Generally, most people and organizations concur that there is a relationship among these variables. Birth control has an input in the rate of population growth. The level of population in the world or in a country seems to impact on economic growth and the level of the standard of living f the people. Let us look at the question of the relationship between
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This week we looked at the relationship between family planning, life expectancy and economic growth. Generally, most people and organizations concur that there is a relationship among these variables. Birth control has an input in the rate of population growth. The level of population in the world or in a country seems to impact on economic growth and the level of the standard of living f the people. Let us look at the question of the relationship between family planning and population growth.
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Abortion and Free Markets A social problem or issue is something that people believe should be corrected into a legal action; one social problem that has been on the government’s agenda for several years, abortion. It involves the fundamental rights for all women and teens when deciding whether or not to abort a child. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2011 reported that abortions accounted for 9.3 percent (CDC, 2011). This percentage of takes into account rape, incest, abusive
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Pro-Choice Abortion has been a topic up for debate here in a America for some time now. There are those who feels it is a okay and that it is a choice, while others frown upon the act. Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy before the fetus is developed enough to live on its own. Millions of abortions are conducted each year. With that being said, not everyone agrees with the Pro-Choice outlook. Many people see abortion as murder, merely stealing life away from someone. They must
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trait virtuous or vicious - or metaethics, which studies philosophical questions about the meaning of ethical words, or the nature of ethical facts 2. Applied ethics is a distinct category of ethical philosophy A. What is applied ethics? 3. Deals with difficult moral questions and controversial moral issues that people actually face in their lives Examples: the moral issues regarding… abortion euthanasia giving to the poor sex before marriage the death penalty gay/lesbian marriage (or other rights)
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Ethical Implications of Assisted Reproduction The ethical implications of assisted reproduction are obvious. There is no doubt the process of assisted reproduction has caused more harm than good as massive killing of unwanted fertilized embryos are carried out during the process. Also some of the babies born through this process have some serious physical and genetic deformities that make some of their parents regret having them. Even a doctor once asserted that he did not get into assisted
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advice about an abortion; she is 17-years old. I think that if i would be the one that is dealing with her, I would have to treat her as i would treat any other patient. I would tell her about the risks and outcome of having a abortion and the use of using birth control phyiscally and mentally. I know as a medical assistant that i would not be allowed to tell her what to do just inform her of the birth control and the advantages and disadvantages. As for the abortion topic i could give her information
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