Kettering

“I don’t know” I can still distinctly recall my eleven-year-old self repeatedly saying to anyone who tried to talk to me. It was my first day of school in America and that was the only sentence I could put together in English. I was born in China and lived there my whole life until my mother decided to move to New York. I thought I was just visiting her for winter break, but she dropped me off at school just a week after my arrival. As my new classmates tried to talk to me, I can see their…

Physician—assisted suicide is when a physician provides a prescription for a lethal dose of medicine to a terminally ill patient upon their request. (http://depts.washington.edu/bioethx/topics/pad.html). It all started in 1906, when Ohio drafted a euthanasia bill, but failed. Since then Oregon, Vermont, New Mexico, and Washington have made it legal, and set protocol that allows terminally ill patients to choose when they die. Oregon’s law requires the patient to be at least 18 years old, a…

Therapeutic Cloning Although not a very popular topic, the issue of cloning human body parts is very relevant in today’s technological world. In 1996, Dr Ian Wilmut of the Roslin Institute was able to successfully clone a sheep named Dolly. Later, in 1998, Japanese scientists were able to clone mice. By the end of the year 2000, thousands of animals were successfully cloned. In 2001, a human embryo was cloned successfully to a 32 cell stage, before scientists terminated it. Had this experiment…