Ethics Discussion II

Question 1

Amniocentesis

Answer 1

Culturing of the cells from the amniotic fluid

Question 2

Chorionic villus sampling

Answer 2

culturing of cells from the placenta (chorion)

Question 3

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis

Answer 3

Sampling of genetic material from blastomeres

Question 4

Three things that prove plasticity of embryos

Answer 4

Combination of blastomeres leading to chimeras, embryo splitting leads to normal embryos, and removal of blastomeres prior to compaction leads to a normal embryo

Question 5

At what stage does compaction occur?

Answer 5

8 cell stage

Question 6

Tay Sachs Case Study: Doctor views (2)

Answer 6

Technolocism, moral neutrality [whatever decision the family makes is the right one]

Question 7

Tay Sachs Case Study: Erin Moran concern:

Answer 7

Is the procedure 100% safe?

Question 8

Tay Sachs Case Study: Abshires
__ years of thinking
Phrase about God
Life begins ___

Answer 8

3 years of thinking
“Our little gift from God”
“Life begins in the uterus”

Question 9

Tay Sachs Case Study: Nebruhers

Phrase about Mother Nature

Answer 9

“Take it out of Mother Nature’s hands”

Question 10

What technique may not involve the destruction of an embryo?

Answer 10

Polar Body Biopsies

Question 11

What is Yury Verlinsky’s opinion of forwarding science?

Answer 11

It is okay, “It’s not our place to make a moral decision for them”

Question 12

What is Jeffrey Kahn’s concern even if we can do polar body biopsy safely?

Answer 12

“Today it’s early onset Alzheimer’s, but eventually it could be selection for intelligence etc. that we could screen genetically. The question is whether we ought to.”