Will Technology Help Us Live Forever Analysis

In the article Male pregnancy a real possibility, found at http://bioedge.org/ , they talk about the possibility of a biological male giving birth. Researchers have came to this conclusion because the University of Gothenburg in Sweden has successfully transplanted a womb in to a women. Then two years later the women gave birth to a healthy boy. If the procedure can be done on a female then, with some refinement, it could possibly be done on a male also. There is an ethical conflict with this. For as long as we have lived women are the ones who have gave birth to children. If men are now able to give birth then what makes a women a women?

The article Will Technology Help Us Live Forever?, found at http://www.bioethics.com/archives/31503 , talks about the advancing medical technologies helping humans live longer. The United Nation estimated that in 2012 there was around 316,600 people living over the age of 100. That number is predicted to rise to over 3 million in 2050. The ethical concern with this is that people have never lived that long, there is a problem with over population in the world. If people live longer that problem will only increase.

In the article British man has fathered 800 children, found at http://www.bioedge.org/P10, talks about how a British man has …show more content…
Dr Bennet Omalu talks about how young participants can be subjected to major depression, memory loss, dementia later in life, etc. from playing football. There is an ethical concern about minors not being able to make informed choices for themselves. That they are pressured into playing this sport from parents and coaches. If minors are not allowed to play until they reach the age of consent then there poses another ethical concerns of the tradition of society to have the star football son athlete or the high school Friday football