1. Briefly analyze the moral status of the fetus and how the “demand to defend the marginalized” influence the authors’ position on this issue as it appears in your textbook.
The “demand to defend the marginalized” is a view point where the rights of all humans, special needs and comatose included, need to be recognized and respected. This view influences the author’s position on abortion because they feel that if the fetus is categorized as a less than human entity. At that point, the cause for concern is that the permanently insane and others will be deemed less than human as well. The concern is that when the fringe of society gets categorized this way, it would be easy to have them put to death as they do not have the same rights and respect as the majority. The wedge affect creates a situation where this line cannot be drawn as easily because every human has the same rights, from conception to the grave.
2. Briefly summarize the ethical issues relevant to abortion and the health care provider from the perspective of the authors of your textbook. …show more content…
These issues arise regardless of if there is a medical indication for the procedure or not. The treatment of infertility is not necessarily a treatment for increased health benefit in line with the rest of the medical field. The treatments that were mentioned in the book do not treat the cause of the infertility, in turn they just provide the parents with a way to create a child outside of the normal reproductive cycle. The issues that come from the uses of these methods for the convenience of the parents and not for a medical indication goes to the question if it is ethical for providers to preform services just because the patients request it and can pay. It is a matter of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” aspect of the medical and scientific
The “demand to defend the marginalized” is a view point where the rights of all humans, special needs and comatose included, need to be recognized and respected. This view influences the author’s position on abortion because they feel that if the fetus is categorized as a less than human entity. At that point, the cause for concern is that the permanently insane and others will be deemed less than human as well. The concern is that when the fringe of society gets categorized this way, it would be easy to have them put to death as they do not have the same rights and respect as the majority. The wedge affect creates a situation where this line cannot be drawn as easily because every human has the same rights, from conception to the grave.
2. Briefly summarize the ethical issues relevant to abortion and the health care provider from the perspective of the authors of your textbook. …show more content…
These issues arise regardless of if there is a medical indication for the procedure or not. The treatment of infertility is not necessarily a treatment for increased health benefit in line with the rest of the medical field. The treatments that were mentioned in the book do not treat the cause of the infertility, in turn they just provide the parents with a way to create a child outside of the normal reproductive cycle. The issues that come from the uses of these methods for the convenience of the parents and not for a medical indication goes to the question if it is ethical for providers to preform services just because the patients request it and can pay. It is a matter of “just because you can, doesn’t mean you should” aspect of the medical and scientific