Bioethics

Question 1

Bot G.E.M. Anscombe and Tad Pacholczyk agree that withholding nutrition from a patient is ethically wrong.

Answer 1

True

Question 2

There are no medical circumstances where the withholding of feeding tubes can be considered ethically necessary.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Tad Pacholczyk states that death should be the result of

Answer 3

D. Pathological condition

Question 4

Brain death and PVS are defined as one and the same.

Answer 4

False

Question 5

Which of the following should a person suffering from PVS not be considered for?

Answer 5

Organ transplant

Question 6

Euthanasia comes from the Latin word meaning “quiet death”.

Answer 6

False

Question 7

A term that refers to an act by which one aids another in ending their life is called assisted suicide.

Answer 7

True

Question 8

_________ euthanasia refers ti an action to end a life by means such as lethal injection

Answer 8

C) Active

Question 9

Frank Pavone states that the right to euthanasia will eventually lead to____ euthanasia.

Answer 9

D) Non-voluntary

Question 10

John Paull II speaks of euthanasia as the “death of true freedom” in his work___.

Answer 10

C) Evangelium Vitae

Question 11

The writer of the Terri Schiavo report stated that he believed her death violated this federal law

Answer 11

D) Americans with disabilities act

Question 12

According to the author in the previous question, starvation as a means of death is painful.

Answer 12

True

Question 13

The writer about the Schiavo situation stated that there has never been anyone who has awakened who suffered from PVS.

Answer 13

B) False

Question 14

Dr. John Haas argued that all forms of stem cell research are unethical.

Answer 14

B) False

Question 15

Haas stated that there is no ethical jurisdiction for scientific research that “______ human life”

Answer 15

D) destroys

Question 16

The Pontifical Academy for Life’s statement on human cloning quotes Hana Jonas’ observation that such cloning is both “despotic” and “slavish”

Answer 16

A) true

Question 17

Which of the following ethical arguments concerning human cloning are advanced by the pontifical academy for life?

Answer 17

D) ALL OF THE ABOVE (women are exploited, artificial wombs can be created, the clone is a copy and lacks dignity)

Question 18

The Pontifical Academy for Life stated that________ human cloning is a moral duty.

Answer 18

C) Halting

Question 19

The Pontifical Academy for Life observed that the “death of God” will lead to the “death of______”

Answer 19

C) man

Question 20

______ believed that doctors should seek to educate their patients about their medical treatment.

Answer 20

D) Plato