final short quizzes Flashcards
As discussed in class, commercial gestational
surrogacy is legal in Canada but is tightly regulated. (t/f)
false
Thomson’s violinist thought experiment is
specifically geared towards pregnancy that results
from rape (t/f)
true
Flanigan denies that the pain or distress of labor
undermines a pregnant woman’s/person’s decisional
competence. (t/f)
true
For Thomson, her defence of the moral
permissibility of abortion requires that fetuses lack a
right to life (t/f)
false
As implied by Boyer and noted in class,
involuntary sterilization in Canada’s health care
system remained a problem (i.e., it continued to
occur) until it stopped at the start of the 21 st century. (t/f)
false
Flanigan thinks that if a woman is competent, she
won’t decide against her own health interests. (t/f)
false
As noted by Mosby, the researchers in the
residential school nutrition studies purposefully kept
some children at starvation levels throughout the
course of the studies (t/f)
true
Dickert and Grady do not support paying
participants who are ill for their participation in
clinical research (t/)
ffalse
ittle accepts the view that some reasons for
deciding to terminate a pregnancy are indecent. (t/f)
true
For Little, though abortion is not properly
understood as murder, it is an example of wrongful
interference with living. (t/f)
false
Steinbock’s primary focus is altruistic gestational
surrogacy. (t/f)
false
According to Jones, the men in the Tuskegee
Syphilis Study (1932-72) were denied efficacious
treatment for the disease (t/f)
true
Macpherson is of the view that climate change
mitigation efforts can succeed without compromising
socioeconomic development. (T/f)
true
In the Baby M story, the Sterns used Whitehead
as a gestational surrogate because they were unable
to have a child “naturally.” (t/f)
false
Macpherson’s discussion of the negative health
impacts of climate change is anthropocentric (t/f)
true
For Dickert and Grady, a Wage Payment Model
for paying participants in clinical research will drive
up the price of doing research (t/f)
false
As noted by Mosby, the residential school
nutrition experiments were conducted before there
was any knowledge of the nutritional challenges
facing the greater Indigenous communities (T/f)
false
Steinbock is unsympathetic to the view that a
commercial gestational surrogate should be
compensated for gestating a fetus even if the
pregnancy fails through no fault of her own. (t/f)
false
In her discussion of bioethics principles,
Macpherson rejects the value of the principle of
autonomy (t/f)
false
For Macpherson, the harm principle supports
taking precautions that are proportional to the
severity and certainty of the harms (t/f)
false
Marquis thinks that the wanton infliction of pain
on other animals is immoral. (t/f)
true
Marquis is sympathetic to the view that human
embryos are not human beings. (t/f)
true
For Thomson, the fundamental issue that
decides the ethical permissibility of abortion is the
personhood of the fetus. (t/f)
false
Despite Marquis’ explicit narrower focus, his view
of the wrongfulness of killing implies that all
abortions (that kill or end up killing the embryo or
fetus) are wrong. (t/f)
false
Jones claims that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
(1932-72) enjoyed the sanction of some US
government agencies (t/f)
true
In light of Nazi research atrocities, the
Nuremberg Code prohibits lethal or disabling
experiments without exception (t/f)
false
According to McLeod, the view about the (proper)
scope principle, or VAS, states: physicians cannot
make conscientious objections in their practices that
violate established norms of the profession that are
morally justified. (t/f)
false
As noted by Mosby, in the year 2000 Lionel Pett,
one of the central researchers in the residential
school studies, conceded that what they did was
unethical (t/f)
false
The Nuremberg Code contains a provision that
permits a human subject to withdraw from an
experiment to which they had earlier consented. (T/f)
true
Jones claims that when the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study (1932-72) began in Alabama, very little was
known about the disease (t/f)
false
Of the justifications for “the doctrine of informed
consent,” Flanigan is of the view that the following is
the strongest:
The justification based on
normative authority.
For McLeod, the strongest reason for allowing
“pro-life” physicians to provide abortion referrals
(where abortion is morally permissible) is:
patient welfare
Thomson seems to allow for the possibility that
a pregnant woman(/person) can be well within their
rights to terminate their pregnancy but still do
something morally wrong if they do. (t/f)
true
As Flanigan understands it, a woman can
autonomously decide against her own health
interests. (t/f)
true
the Nuremberg Code is the first post-Second
World War code to mention the welfare of animal
research subjects. (t/f)
false
On McLeod’s view, there are circumstances
where a “pro-life” physician is morally required to
provide abortion services, against their conscience. (t/f)
true
The Nuremberg Code places significant
constraints on using children in research. (t/f)
false
Flanigan basically defends the view that a woman
has the right to endanger a late-term fetus by
decisions she makes while she is in labor. (t/f)
true
Dickert and Grady favor the following payment
model for research participants
Wage Payment Model
According to Jones, no one in the US government
(this includes the houses of Congress and the White
House), has ever apologized for the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study (1932-72) (t/f)
false
Little grants that analyses of early abortion should
not ignore the personhood of the embryo or fetus. (t/f)
false
As Mosby notes, objections from the general
public about the use of vulnerable human populations
in research only begins after the Nazi research
atrocities of the Second World War (t/f)
false
Fundamentally, Marquis thinks that it is a prima
facie wrong to take a human life. (t/f)
false
McLeod is of the view that there are
circumstances where “pro-life” physicians should be
required to provide abortion referrals, against their
conscience. (t/f)
true
Given Steinbock’s description, children seem to
be commodified in commercial gestational surrogacy
transactions. (t/f)
true
