Bioethics

Stem Cell Research: The Bioethical Debate Medical technology is accelerating at the fastest rate the world has ever seen. Everyday there are new methods of treatment that make past treatments irrelevant and outdated. Stem cell research has been a debated topic for the past few decades. People argue that stem cell research is immoral because you’re essentially ending a possible life, an embryo, in order to save and treat many lives. Stem cell research needs to be funded and practiced. If it means…

Our world is divided by many different social issues. The diversity over the issue of abortion is loud and glaring. This highly debated matter courses through the populace around the world. There are so many aspects concerning abortion. Many of the main arguments include; the physical and mental effects, the morality of the situation, the preventive measures, and possible options besides abortion. Pro-life and Pro-choice are the main groups associated with this topic. They are each the…

PGD: Prevent Giving Diseases For ages, it has been a natural instinct for animals to want to procreate to pass on their genes to future generations. Likewise, humans also share this instinct, but recent technology has taken this a step further, sparking a great deal of controversy. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive technology which can be used in conjunction with in vitro fertilization (IVF) for the diagnosis of a genetic disease in embryos prior to implantation and…

organs could be used-the ones which are not affected with diseases. Financial aspect proves a point that maintaining a death-row inmate in prison is very expensive and execution is a lot cheaper option. On opposition, articles in the Journal of Bioethics says that executing a person to save up money is not acceptable, also it would place physicians in the position as executers, furthermore, even people on death should have choice to donate their organs without coercion. Using the organs from…

Many of the health care industries today have codes of ethics that guide the behavior of the professional in the medical field. Ethics refers to standards that provide criteria for what is right or wrong. Ethics is shaped by individuals, society and nations. In the past we have had ethical dilemmas, which is a situation in which a person is faced with a decision to test these morals. These decisions have helped shaped the way informatics is structured in our modern day. As the name implies…

In November 1998, two separate teams of American scientists reported that they had succeeded in isolating and culturing stem cells collected from human embryos and fetuses as stated in the article titled “The Intersection of Law and Medicine: The Case for Providing Federal Funding for Embryonic Stem Cell Research”. A stem cell is defined by the medical world as an undifferentiated cell of a multicellular organism that is capable of giving rise to indefinitely more cells of the same type, and…

Currently, there is one procedure widely used to detect mutations that could lead to heredity diseases or genetic diseases harmful to the future child’s health. When a woman wants to be a mother, she can choose in vitro fertilization (IVF) where the eggs of the mother are removed and mixed with sperm in a laboratory ("Fertility Treatment: In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)"). It is during this time embryo selection can occur if the mother wishes. The mother can choose a procedure called…

Ornella Nzau Professor Latoya Watkins Englisg1302 10/17/2016 Abortion Throughout the world, the number of abortion has highly increased. Abortion is defined as the termination of a pregnancy.it is the killing or the removal of an unborn baby. Abortion is legal in the United States where as some of the states do not encourage and permit it. Although the U.S Supreme Court has stated abortion to be a fundamental right guaranteed by the U.S constitution, abortion is consider unsafe. More than…

Paper 4 "Organ Sales Will Save Lives" by Joanna MacKay explains the problem that thousands of people are complaining about. This problem is that thousands of people are begging to buy a kidney, but the government doesn't allow people to sell human organs. This outcome causes thousands of people to die each year, creating chaos around the world. Mackay and the other author’s want to convey their message to the government on why this catastrophic problem should be fixed. Since this essay is…

The “Pointless” Artificial Creation The matter of cloning reached a peak when CEO of BioArts International, Lou Hawthorne, announced to his company that they were no longer offering dog-cloning services by giving demand of cloning for a an uninterested market and unethical competition between international markets as one of the reasons for the stoppage. A similar situation of total disregard to organism creation through laboratorial procedures was observed in Ehrlich’s article talking about the…