Module - Case

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Assignment Overview

It is the ultimate progression for many young couples: get married, settle into a nice job, buy a house, and ultimately start a family. However, many couples find that when the time comes to start their family, they are unable to conceive a child. Thanks to advances in medicine, many are able to ultimately have a child using various infertility treatments or adoption. What happens when you are denied the opportunity to adopt or receive fertility treatments due to an existing medical condition? This is the topic of the article "Case Series of Fertility Treatment in HIV-Discordant Couples (Male Positive, Female Negative): The Ontario Experience" and the focus of this assignment.

Case Assignment

Read the article referenced above. After reading the article respond to the questions listed below.

Briefly summarize the article.

What are the reasons given for not allowing these couples to receive fertility treatments?

What ethical principles are being violated?

Do you agree or disagree with the position of not allowing these couples to receive fertility treatment?

Should the government or healthcare organizations have the right to refuse someone the opportunity to have a child?

Assignment Expectations

Be sure to conduct additional research to gather sufficient information to familiarize yourself with the facts of the case and be sure to justify/support your position.

Limit your responses to a maximum of three pages.

Please support your discussions with scholarly support (3-5 references). Be sure to properly cite all references.

Apply critical thinking skills the the assignment component.

Your paper will be evaluated based on the rubric criteria.

Module - SLP

BIOTECHNOLOGY AND REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS
The ultimate goal of the Session Long Project is to identify and evaluate the ethical principles used in resolving ethical dilemmas, and to apply the principles to specific ethical issues that may have professional, sociological, economic, legal or political implications.

Abortion is an issue that evokes strong reaction from many people. According to the author of Abortion: At the still point of the turning conscientious objection debate," two of the more prominent voices within public bioethical debate are philosophical views that, on the one hand, hold up bare (human) life as its fundamental value, and, on the other, hold up the life that can choose as its fundamental value. For this assignment, please read the article listed above and respond to the following questions.

Briefly discuss Lee and George's theory and their position on abortion.

Briefly discuss Beauchamp and Childress' theory and position on abortion.

Briefly discuss the theoretical and practical dynamics of the conscientious objection debate. Be sure to compare and contrast the two theories in your discussion.

The conscientious objection debate, which Charo and Cantor describe at the socio-political level, centers on a question that can be roughly articulated as, ‘‘How do we handle con?icts that arise because people hold divergent moral perspectives? Please provide an example of how this that might occur in your discipline of study. What is the conflict? What are the moral issues that might arise? Which one of theories discussed in the article might be used to resolve these conflicts?

Use the information in the modular background readings as well as resources you find through ProQuest or other online sources. Please be sure to cite all sources and provide a reference list at the end of the paper. Submit the paper as a WORD document through the link provided for the assignment.

SLP Assignment Expectations

Be sure to identify and discuss applicable state and federal laws/regulations as well as ethical theories and principles.

Your opinions must be justified with evidence from the literature.

Be sure to apply critical thinking skills to the assignment criteria.

References should be cited properly in the text of your essay (either in parentheses or as footnotes), as well as at the end.

Several (3-5) scholarly references should be cited for this assignment.

Please limit your response to 3 pages maximum, not including title and reference pages.

Your paper will be evaluated based on the rubric criteria.

Mod 3 Discussion Post

Cloning

Your comments will be graded on how well they meet the Discussion Requirements posted under "Before You Begin."

It has been long understood that one's genetic make-up not only shapes who we are, but serves as a chief factor in determining our future health status. Now days, clients can undergo genetic screening which is the "examination of the genetic constitution of an individual - whether a fetus, a young child ot mature adult - in search of clues to the likelihood that this person will develop or transmit a heritable defect or disease" (Suzuki & Knudson, 1990). As with genetic screening, the same genetic material can be used to clone living subjects. After all, we've cloned a number of mammals over the years. There is no real technical reason why we can't clone humans. There are only minor technical obstacles to overcome to achieve human cloning. All that's really needed is a substantial sum of money and for most countries a change in the law and societal values. Despite the moral and ethics considers, there are a number of women who are eager to give birth to a cloned version of a deceased child. What do you perceive the pros and cons associated with genetic screening and cloning? Just because we could, does that mean we should? What ethical guidelines might you suggest for genetic screening and cloning of human subjects?

Reference

Suzuki, D. &Knudtson, P. (1990). Genetics. Massachusetts: Harvard University Press.