Ethics And Bioethics

Question 1

What is Bioethics?

Answer 1

The study of ethical issues emerging from new situations and possibilities brought about by advances in biology and medicine. Concerned with two things: creating life and maintaining life

Question 2

What is infertility?

Answer 2

Means that a couple cannot conceive a child

Question 3

What is IVF? (In vitro fertilisation)

Answer 3

Treatment for a woman who cannot become pregnant naturally, in which an egg is fertilised outside her body in a test tube.

Question 4

What are Christian’s views on IVF?

Answer 4

It is messing with God’s plan and way of life.
Multiple embryos are made which means multiple lives are made and multiple lives are destroyed

Question 5

What is surrogacy?

Answer 5

When an embryo is placed in the uterus of a host mother

Question 6

Bible quotes about IVF

Answer 6

Exodus 20:13 - you shall not kill
Jeremiah 1:5 - before I formed you in the womb, I knew you before you were born

Question 7

What are the two types of surrogacy?

Answer 7

Traditional surrogacy - when the eggs of the surrogate mother are used
Gestational - this does not use the surrogate’s own eggs, an embryo is created through IVF

Question 8

What are the concerns about surrogacy?

Answer 8

1. In some parts of the world, commercial surrogacy is legal. Many people are concerned that this involves treating a child as a commodity that can be paid for.
2. It may lead to the child having identity issues later in life, perhaps having to come to terms with up to three mums and two dads.

Question 9

Benefits of surrogacy

Answer 9

1. For some couples, it is their only mean by which they can have a child.
2. It also offers the possibility for the baby to share the same genetic characteristics as one or both parents.
3. It can enable same-sex couples to have a child.