Moral issues morality, medicine and the human body

Question 1

Moral issues arising from reproductive uses of embryos

Answer 1

-Does screening out diseases and disabilities raise the question of if everyone’s life is valued?
-Should IVF be done if it involves the destruction of embryos?
-is IVF playing God?

Question 2

Moral issues arising from therapeutic uses of embryos

Answer 2

-Should a child be born purely for the purpose of saving an already existing child’s life?
-Are saviour siblings morally justified if the child may have to undergo risky medical procedures?
-Should embryos be used to treat disease or illness if the embryo cannot give consent?

Question 3

Moral issues arising from research uses of embryos

Answer 3

• Is it justifiable to carry out pure research on embryos?
  -Should research on embryos be carried out if it results in the destruction of embryos?
  -Could research uses of embryos lead to a slippery slope?
  -Is researching in embryos playing God?

Question 4

Moral issues arising from beating heart donations

Answer 4

-Can a person truely be considered dead if their heart is still beating and they are still breathing?
-should the body be left intact before death
-shoukd a beating heart be takibg from a brain dead donor if we cant be sure they would be consenting?
-could the increasing need for organs lead to doctors prouncing people as brain dead too hastily?

Question 4

Moral issues arising from presumed and informed consent

Answer 4

-Can organs taken in a system of presumed consent really be considered a donation?
-Does presumed consent give the state ownership over our organs?
-Should presumed consent be legal if it leads to people becoming donors who are morally against it?

Question 5

Moral issues arising from beating heart donations

Answer 5

-Can a person truely be considered dead if they’re heart is still beating and they’re still breathing?
-Should donations from brain dead donors happen if we can experience what the brain dead donor is?
-When is a person considered to be dead?
-Does the need for organs lead to doctors pronouncing someone as brain dead to hastily?

Question 6

Moral issues arising from living donors

Answer 6

-should a perfectly person be operated on in order to get their organs with all the risks that are involved?
-Should donors be able to choose who their organs go to?
-Should people be able to sell their organs?

Question 7

Moral issues arising from assisted dying

Answer 7

-Should we have the right to die?
-Is assisted dying still necessary with advancements in pain killers and end of life care?
-Does assisted dying put pressure on vulnerable people in society?
-Could assisted dying lead to mistrust between patients and doctors?

Question 8

Moral issues arising from voluntary euthanasia

Answer 8

-Should people have the right to die?
-is it a doctors place to end a life?
-Can we be sure a request is voluntary?
-Does it lead to a slippery slope?
-Could it open the doors to potential abuse?

Question 9

Moral issues arising from non-voluntary euthanasia

Answer 9

-Can euthanasia be viewed as an act of kindness?
-Does euthanasia open up the doors for potential abuse?
-Should medical professionals or other people have the right to decide when a persons life is no longer worth living?

Question 10

Moral issues arising from end of life care

Answer 10

-Should end of life care be freely given to everyone?
-Should end of life care be prioritised over care for people who have a chance of recovery?
-Should the government or families be responsible for giving end of life care?
-Should we ever stop trying to treat illness even if it appears to be terminal?