Fertility Treatment and Cloning - Medical Ethics
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- Created on: 20-04-13 21:46
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- Fertility Treatment and Cloning
- Types of treatment
- Artificial Insemination by Husband: sperm injected into womb
- Artificial Insemination by Donor: from sperm bank
- In Vitro Fertilisation: eggs fertilised in test tube
- Egg Donation: egg from another woman
- Catholic beliefs
- Embryos are thrown away so it is wrong as life begins at conception
- If someone is infertile, God meant for it to be that way
- "The lord had closed her womb" -Samuel
- Sperm and egg donation is wrong because it is introducing a third person - adultery
- It is God's choice who lives and dies (cloning and fertility treatment)
- Cloning separates procreation from the sexual act which is a sin
- Liberal Beliefs
- "Be fruitful and increase in number" -Genesis
- People have a right to have children
- Scientific knowledge is used to help people who cannot see so it should be used to help people who cannot have children
- Cloning is good for treating life threateneing diseases not human cloning
- Types of treatment
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