Questions on the Ethicality of Using Genetic Screening as a Tool in Conception
Critical Thinking Paper
I. Identification
1. Is it right to use genetic screening as a tool in conception?
2. Is it right to use genetic screening as a tool to keep tabs on their prospective enrollees?
3. Is it right to have a second child for the sole purpose of using that child’s genetic material to cure an existing child?
4. Is it right that they would risk having another child inflicted with the same disease in order to possibly save their current child?
5. Is it right for a medical counselor to question the motives behind a couple seeking to have a second child (legally parents have a fundamental right to have children – the motives behind the decision are mostly irrelevant?)
Central Ethical Issue
Is it right to have a second child for the sole purpose of using that child’s genetic material to cure an existing child? This is the most pressing ethical issue in the text because there are so many people that are potentially affected by this decision. Most of the other issues are basically sub issues that either lead too or stray away from this main ethical issue.
II. Research
1. Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health DictionaryEdition 5, 1998, p02AE, This text basically taught me that Acute Childhood Lymphoid Leukemia is a malignant (cancerous) disease of the blood producing parts of the body (spleen, Bone Marrow, and Lymph nodes), The peak years for a child to get this disease are between the ages of 2 and 5, and this disease has a nearly a twenty percent chance of relapse. This article is pretty old so only the basic information about the disease can be withdrawn from the text but overall it was very educational and I took a lot from it. This article is relevant to the main ethical issue because it gives me a lot of background information about the disease that Michelle has been diagnosed with.
2. Issues in Science and Technology Fall 2012, v29 i1, p77(11), This article is basically written to examine the ethical issues in genetic
I. Identification
1. Is it right to use genetic screening as a tool in conception?
2. Is it right to use genetic screening as a tool to keep tabs on their prospective enrollees?
3. Is it right to have a second child for the sole purpose of using that child’s genetic material to cure an existing child?
4. Is it right that they would risk having another child inflicted with the same disease in order to possibly save their current child?
5. Is it right for a medical counselor to question the motives behind a couple seeking to have a second child (legally parents have a fundamental right to have children – the motives behind the decision are mostly irrelevant?)
Central Ethical Issue
Is it right to have a second child for the sole purpose of using that child’s genetic material to cure an existing child? This is the most pressing ethical issue in the text because there are so many people that are potentially affected by this decision. Most of the other issues are basically sub issues that either lead too or stray away from this main ethical issue.
II. Research
1. Mosby's Medical, Nursing, & Allied Health DictionaryEdition 5, 1998, p02AE, This text basically taught me that Acute Childhood Lymphoid Leukemia is a malignant (cancerous) disease of the blood producing parts of the body (spleen, Bone Marrow, and Lymph nodes), The peak years for a child to get this disease are between the ages of 2 and 5, and this disease has a nearly a twenty percent chance of relapse. This article is pretty old so only the basic information about the disease can be withdrawn from the text but overall it was very educational and I took a lot from it. This article is relevant to the main ethical issue because it gives me a lot of background information about the disease that Michelle has been diagnosed with.
2. Issues in Science and Technology Fall 2012, v29 i1, p77(11), This article is basically written to examine the ethical issues in genetic