Case 1: IVF and sex selection
A couple wants to have a child, but the 32 year old female is a dominant carrier of a genetic disorder called Huntington’s disease, HD, and so the child would have a 50% chance of being a carrier. Symptoms such as loss in muscle control, emotional outburst, muscle spasm and loss in speech begin to show around the ages 32-40 and after 15-20 0f HD symptoms this genetic disorder results in death. The couple then decided to go for invitro fertilisation, where eggs of the female are harvested and then only the embryos which do not contain the defect gene are fertilised. Nine months later the couple have a son whom is not a carrier of the defect gene.
The ethical issues causing conflict in this case is the use of invitro-fertilisation …show more content…
On the 17th of February 2014, during a house breaking a couple was shot dead and their daughter raped in Tonga, Mpumalanga. Whilst the police were still conducting their investigation, the community gather together and lead a manhunt for the attackers. Two of the four attackers were found by the community and beaten to death; the other two were found by the police and arrested.
What triggered the conflict besides the crimes committed was the community taking the law into their own hands and prosecuting attackers for their crimes. The community taking the law into their own hands is not acceptable, turning to mob justice as an attempt to make criminals pay for their crimes is illegal and unethical. The community was wronged by the attackers but mob justice is a crime itself. There are certain procedures followed in a country to serve justice when laws have been broken.
What the community should have done at the capture of the attackers is handed them over to the police. Let the justice system play its part. Even though it may take a while for the attackers to be convicted, in the end they would heavily pay as rape and murder are crimes which are not taken lightly in South
A couple wants to have a child, but the 32 year old female is a dominant carrier of a genetic disorder called Huntington’s disease, HD, and so the child would have a 50% chance of being a carrier. Symptoms such as loss in muscle control, emotional outburst, muscle spasm and loss in speech begin to show around the ages 32-40 and after 15-20 0f HD symptoms this genetic disorder results in death. The couple then decided to go for invitro fertilisation, where eggs of the female are harvested and then only the embryos which do not contain the defect gene are fertilised. Nine months later the couple have a son whom is not a carrier of the defect gene.
The ethical issues causing conflict in this case is the use of invitro-fertilisation …show more content…
On the 17th of February 2014, during a house breaking a couple was shot dead and their daughter raped in Tonga, Mpumalanga. Whilst the police were still conducting their investigation, the community gather together and lead a manhunt for the attackers. Two of the four attackers were found by the community and beaten to death; the other two were found by the police and arrested.
What triggered the conflict besides the crimes committed was the community taking the law into their own hands and prosecuting attackers for their crimes. The community taking the law into their own hands is not acceptable, turning to mob justice as an attempt to make criminals pay for their crimes is illegal and unethical. The community was wronged by the attackers but mob justice is a crime itself. There are certain procedures followed in a country to serve justice when laws have been broken.
What the community should have done at the capture of the attackers is handed them over to the police. Let the justice system play its part. Even though it may take a while for the attackers to be convicted, in the end they would heavily pay as rape and murder are crimes which are not taken lightly in South