The articles that I will be comparing and contrasting will be Young Women’s Eggs: Elite and Ordinary written by Elizabeth Reis in the 2011 and Three Generations of Native American Women’s Birth Experience written by Joy Harjo in 1991. The articles each have their different ways of approaching their topic but both speak of women and reproduction. The article Young Women’s Eggs: Elite and Ordinary speaks about how the author investigates the egg "donation" industry.…
Doctors of today have advanced tools and technology to look at an embryo and tell if it is healthy and ready for life. Many mothers experience complication in pregnancy that can lead to a child being born with disabilities. As stated in JUSTIFYING INFANTICIDE AND NON-VOLUNTARY EUTHANASIA By Peter Singer, infants can be born with “irreversible intellectual disabilities, will never be rational, self-conscious beings.” With the knowledge of the child’s health before birth it gives a morally difficult question to answer. Should the child be born?…
Fetal Stem Cell Research Pros and Cons Stem cells have the capacity to create other cells in the body, such as brain, muscle, tissue and blood cells. This is why it is considered a revolutionary option to repair or replace damaged cells or tissues, as in the case of cancer. Stem cells are present in all of our bodies and for the entirety of our existence. But its potency is highest in a fetus than in an adult body, resulting in fetal stem cell research. The negative and positive effects it would have on a fetus led to a heated debate about embryonic stem cell research, as it is also called.…
The dilemma of human embryonic stem cell (hESC) research can be a very controversial subject. Many people are supporters of hESC research because they view the embryos to be resourceful experiments in contributing with medication because of the abilities the undifferentiated embryonic stem cells have. Many of the opposing individuals are against scientists who conduct experiments on embryos for personal moral reasons. People who have religious or personal values, argue embryos are “human” and not a tool. They expect scientists and others to respect embryos equivalently as living human individuals.…
Many people will not sign up to become an organ donor because they think it is a hard process, they don't know how it works, or they don't think it would be worth it. If a person is hospitalized, the medical staff provides the best possible care, regardless of organ donor status. Donation is considered after a patient has died. (become) Although there are risks with undergoing any surgery, most live donors do very well and have no physical ill effects or alterations in their own health.…
“It’s a shame that qualified families are being rejected from the process because of irrelevant considerations, such as sexuality” - Shannon Corregan. Gay couples are being rejected from adoption just for their sexuality. Although some say children need a mother and a father, Gay couples should be allowed to adopt. Laws have been enforced to ban gay couples from legally adopting a child. Evidence from the article states “The Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal was a setback for the American Civil Liberties Union and gay rights group.”…
People have always believed that Embryonic Stem Cell Research has the potential to lead to great medical discoveries that may allow the recreation of medicine. Through embryonic stem cell research, stem cells can be created and modified so that these cells can transform into specific cells that may be used to treat incurable diseases, or create therapies for incurable diseases, such as diabetes. However, there are also several ethical issues that are looked down upon by various civilian and medical communities. Specifically, the harvest and destroy human embryos in order to obtain the embryonic stem cells needed for research.…
A notable number of modern thinkers specifically reprimanded the "human-centric" perspective that people are extraordinary, moreover, made in the image of God. In the nineteenth and mid twentieth century the popular German Darwinist Ernst Haeckel, for instance, impacted Christianity by advancing an "anthropocentric" and dualistic perspective of humanity. Today the acclaimed bioethicist Peter Singer, alongside the agnostic Darwinian scientist Richard Dawkins, contend that, in view of the Darwinian comprehension of human causes, we have to de-sanctify human life, stripping ourselves of any idea that people are made in the image of God and subsequently uniquely valuable. Meanwhile, an evolutionary environmentalist at the Univ. of Texas, Eric Pianka, battles overtly against anthropocentrism, even expressing the wish that 90% of the human populace will be exterminated, possibly by a pandemic.…
Eugenics is a type of genetic engineering that was intended for the improvement of the human population through artificial selection and gene editing technologies to increase the frequency of advantageous or desirable characteristics. The idea of eugenics to improve human conditions, in the form of embryo manipulation, has been debated in many scientific and cultural communities for various reasons. One of them being its effect on society, specifically the societal views of genetically improved individuals. From a social and cultural perspective, the concept of eugenics varies between people of different cultural and societal upbringings.…
Genetic testing and editing isn't a new-found technology, it has been used on plants and animals for decades. Consequences of these are beginning to arise, particularly in genome editing within species. Pure bred dogs are the closest comparison we have to what we would be doing if liberal eugenics was legalised. Darwinism is at the heart of this argument, that natural selection will be central for the improvement of mankind. Cross-breeding has been evident to inherently increasing survival within species, due to genetic diversity.…
Cloning is a sin in front of god because in the bible it says “So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them “Genesis 1:27. God created people in his own image, and for babies to be created in mother’s womb, in the natural way not in a test tube. Anyone who follows God and believes in the bible should not say cloning is right especially just for organ donation, because nobody should take away the life of another person because only God can take away lives. Men did not create our life but God did so a man should not have any right to take anybody’s life because only the creator can take what he gave ys therefore killing clones for donation purpose is murdering and it should be a crime. If people keep on cloning to save their loved ones or in the memory of them, then the generation is not going anywhere because we are going to keep on cloning the people that were here.…
Genetics has typically been view as a benefit to society in the aspect of eugenics. Eugenics is defined by Francis Galton as “the study of agencies under social control that improves or impairs the qualities of future generations either physically or mentally”. The statement “improves or impairs” directly correlates to positive and negative eugenics. In the past positive eugenics has been seen through Better Baby and Fitter Familie for Future Fireside contests. These contests were used to endorse breeding with the sole purpose of choosing the most favorable traits to be passed onto the next generation.…
The increase of knowledge regarding the topic altering genes has become rapid and have open and paved the hope of designing your own perfect baby. Even today, the use of reforming and adjusting the genes of an unborn child is being put in effect. “Techniques of genetic screening are already being used, whereby embryos can be selected by sex and checked for certain disease-bearing genes. This can lead to either the termination of a pregnancy, or if analyzed at a pre-implantation stage when using In Vitro Fertilization (IVF), can enable the pregnancy to be created using only non-disease bearing genes” (Steere, 2011, para. 6). Altering the babies genes can not only harm the baby, however, can also terminate the baby.…
Socially sensitive research has been applied in controversial ways by the eugenics movement. The findings of psychological research were used (many would say misused) in order to prevent particular people in society from 'breeding'. Supporters of these ideas included Adolf Hitler and certain American psychologists. Around 1915, several American states passed laws designed to prevent people of low intelligence from having children. Psychologists were in favour of having these laws passed and were involved with their enforcement.…
There religious and ethical objections to this kind of treatment. If the couple going through treatment passes away unless there provision made the embryo will then be discarded. Religious and ethical group view an embryo as having life. The question also arises about undocumented donors. Some may be coerced to donate their eggs by middle men who make money out of.…