final short quizzes

Question 1

As discussed in class, commercial gestational
surrogacy is legal in Canada but is tightly regulated. (t/f)

Answer 1

false

Question 2

Thomson’s violinist thought experiment is
specifically geared towards pregnancy that results
from rape (t/f)

Answer 2

true

Question 3

Flanigan denies that the pain or distress of labor
undermines a pregnant woman’s/person’s decisional
competence. (t/f)

Answer 3

true

Question 4

For Thomson, her defence of the moral
permissibility of abortion requires that fetuses lack a
right to life (t/f)

Answer 4

false

Question 5

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)

Answer 5

false

Question 6

Flanigan thinks that if a woman is competent, she
won’t decide against her own health interests. (t/f)

Answer 6

false

Question 7

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)

Answer 7

true

Question 8

Dickert and Grady do not support paying
participants who are ill for their participation in
clinical research (t/)

Answer 8

ffalse

Question 9

ittle accepts the view that some reasons for
deciding to terminate a pregnancy are indecent. (t/f)

Answer 9

true

Question 10

For Little, though abortion is not properly
understood as murder, it is an example of wrongful
interference with living. (t/f)

Answer 10

false

Question 11

Steinbock’s primary focus is altruistic gestational
surrogacy. (t/f)

Answer 11

false

Question 12

According to Jones, the men in the Tuskegee
Syphilis Study (1932-72) were denied efficacious
treatment for the disease (t/f)

Answer 12

true

Question 13

Macpherson is of the view that climate change
mitigation efforts can succeed without compromising
socioeconomic development. (T/f)

Answer 13

true

Question 14

In the Baby M story, the Sterns used Whitehead
as a gestational surrogate because they were unable
to have a child “naturally.” (t/f)

Answer 14

false

Question 15

Macpherson’s discussion of the negative health
impacts of climate change is anthropocentric (t/f)

Answer 15

true

Question 16

For Dickert and Grady, a Wage Payment Model
for paying participants in clinical research will drive
up the price of doing research (t/f)

Answer 16

false

Question 17

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)

Answer 17

false

Question 18

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)

Answer 18

false

Question 19

In her discussion of bioethics principles,
Macpherson rejects the value of the principle of
autonomy (t/f)

Answer 19

false

Question 20

For Macpherson, the harm principle supports
taking precautions that are proportional to the
severity and certainty of the harms (t/f)

Answer 20

false

Question 21

Marquis thinks that the wanton infliction of pain
on other animals is immoral. (t/f)

Answer 21

true

Question 22

Marquis is sympathetic to the view that human
embryos are not human beings. (t/f)

Answer 22

true

Question 23

For Thomson, the fundamental issue that
decides the ethical permissibility of abortion is the
personhood of the fetus. (t/f)

Answer 23

false

Question 24

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)

Answer 24

false

Question 25

Jones claims that the Tuskegee Syphilis Study
(1932-72) enjoyed the sanction of some US
government agencies (t/f)

Answer 25

true

Question 26

In light of Nazi research atrocities, the
Nuremberg Code prohibits lethal or disabling
experiments without exception (t/f)

Answer 26

false

Question 27

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)

Answer 27

false

Question 28

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)

Answer 28

false

Question 29

The Nuremberg Code contains a provision that
permits a human subject to withdraw from an
experiment to which they had earlier consented. (T/f)

Answer 29

true

Question 30

Jones claims that when the Tuskegee Syphilis
Study (1932-72) began in Alabama, very little was
known about the disease (t/f)

Answer 30

false

Question 31

Of the justifications for “the doctrine of informed
consent,” Flanigan is of the view that the following is
the strongest:

Answer 31

The justification based on
normative authority.

Question 32

For McLeod, the strongest reason for allowing
“pro-life” physicians to provide abortion referrals
(where abortion is morally permissible) is:

Answer 32

patient welfare

Question 33

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)

Answer 33

true

Question 34

As Flanigan understands it, a woman can
autonomously decide against her own health
interests. (t/f)

Answer 34

true

Question 35

the Nuremberg Code is the first post-Second
World War code to mention the welfare of animal
research subjects. (t/f)

Answer 35

false

Question 36

On McLeod’s view, there are circumstances
where a “pro-life” physician is morally required to
provide abortion services, against their conscience. (t/f)

Answer 36

true

Question 37

The Nuremberg Code places significant
constraints on using children in research. (t/f)

Answer 37

false

Question 38

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)

Answer 38

true

Question 39

Dickert and Grady favor the following payment
model for research participants

Answer 39

Wage Payment Model

Question 40

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)

Answer 40

false

Question 41

Little grants that analyses of early abortion should
not ignore the personhood of the embryo or fetus. (t/f)

Answer 41

false

Question 42

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)

Answer 42

false

Question 43

Fundamentally, Marquis thinks that it is a prima
facie wrong to take a human life. (t/f)

Answer 43

false

Question 44

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)

Answer 44

true

Question 45

Given Steinbock’s description, children seem to
be commodified in commercial gestational surrogacy
transactions. (t/f)

Answer 45

true