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| Genetically Modified Food |
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| food whose genetics have been changed to boost yields, disease resistance etc. |
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| babies whose genetic makeup is predetermined |
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| using gene and stem cell research to treat or cure diseases |
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| master cell that can become any kind of cell, present for first 14 days of embryo life |
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| creating a form of life with identical genetic structure |
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| creating an embryo outside the womb |
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| a developing collection of cells up to eight weeks old |
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P: stem cells change into other cells to help mend hearts or repair bones
N: may be rejected by the patient as genetic makeup will be different, unless patient's own stem cells are used. |
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| All adults have some, but they are NOT totipotent |
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| They are easily collected from a 5 day okld embryo and they ARE totipotent |
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| Body tissue is cloned to provide exact genetic match to the patient |
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Can we still try?
Can we be certain?
Does this justify the means? |
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It was a theory until Dolly the Sheep
Is it moral to use some human beings as a means to an end? |
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Was Dolly's journey ethical?
She was the onyl one after 430 tries
She aged faster than expected |
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Genetic makeup: Hashmi family allowed to design a baby to help daughter
Prevent miscarriage: Handyside designed a baby that would not miscarry as of the genes
Can we design a baby to be itelligent then? or disease frre? |
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HFEA (1990)
Human Fertility and Embryo Authority |
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detect genetic abnormalities
develop effective contraception
causes of miscarriage
congential diseases
fertility treatment |
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Does a woman have the right to use the frozen sperm of her dead husband?
Do same sex couples have the right t a child by using a surrogate mother? |
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| 'Children are a gift from God. There is no right to a child' |
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| condemns as gravely evil acts, both IVF and stem cell research performed on IVF embryos (like experimenting on me without my permission) |
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2006: Dr Hwang claimed to...didn't
'When our children become the products of our wills, created by our design,to satisfy our desires, they are profoundly dehumanised - they are not begotten, but made. |
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| sees developments as shaped by the 'Balconian Project', the aim to maximise choice and eliminate suffering...so human beings can reduce to their genetic inheritence and children seen as an addition to human happiness, a product of choice |
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| As the technology exists now to clone sheep, it is inevitable that people will one day be cloned. So the process must stop now |
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risk of a two tier community: 'higher level , genetics' and the lower class undesigned.
'The principle of the ends'
'everyone counts as one' |
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boost yield crop and cure diseases
allegations of explotation of farmers whom have tio sell their crop then buy it back - Indian Framers
Fears that the balance will become unbalanced |
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Kantians: is an embryo a person?
Natural Law: 'preserve life'
Roman Catolic: 'grave sin'
'Right to a child' is ambiguous
Designer babies - superior? |
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