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Unit 2: The Use Of Medical Technology Flashcards

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What is the difference between AIH and AID?

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AIH is when the husband’s sperm is used but AID uses a donor sperm to assist pregnancy.

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What is artificial insemination?

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Sperm medically inserted into the vagina to assist pregnancy

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Why do some Christians say ‘all forms of artificial insemination are wrong’?

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Why may some Christians say that ‘AIH is morally justified’?

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Why might some Christians say ‘AID may be morally justified’?

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What is the average cost and success rate of IVF?

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Around £3,500 per course with a 22% success rate

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Why are only two embryos placed inside the woman?

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What is foetal reduction?

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The killing of the weaker of multiple foetuses

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Who is the surrogate (host) mother?

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The one who has a baby for another woman

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Who is the genetic mother?

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The one whose egg is used

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Who is the biological mother?

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The one who carries the baby and gives birth to it

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Who is the legal mother?

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The one who gives birth to the child

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Is there an example of surrogacy in the Bible? (Brief story of about 3 sentences)

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Yes- Sarai, Abram’s wife was unable to bear children so she asked Abram to sleep with Hagar (Sarai’s slave) to have a child which would have been theirs.

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3 moral problems of surrogacy

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Christian arguments for surrogacy

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Christian arguments against surrogacy

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What is genetic engineering?

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Modifying the genetic structure of living things.

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Give some moral questions which Christians may ask about genetic engineering

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Advantages of genetic engineering of animals and plants

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What is somatic cell therapy (gene therapy)?

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A type of genetic engineering which is used to create new tissue cells to treat diseases

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Christian arguments for somatic cell therapy

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Arguments against somatic cell therapy

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Tell me briefly about Rhys Evans

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A little boy who did not respond to antibiotics because his immune system shut down.
He received somatic cell therapy in 2002 and it was successful.

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What is a saviour sibling?

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A sibling of a seriously sick child who is created for the saving of this child.

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How is a saviour sibling created?

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They are not genetically modified but are screened so that the embryo with the nearest DNA match, free of the condition, is implanted into the womb.

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Christian arguments for saviour siblings

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Arguments against saviour siblings

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What is cloning?

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The scientific method by which organisms which have exactly the same genetic makeup as the original can be created because the DNA of the original is used

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Disadvantages of genetic engineering of animals

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What is an embryo?

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Fertilised ovum at about 12-14 days of when implanted into the uterus

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What was the first sheep to be cloned and when?

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Dolly the Sheep in 1997

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What is reproductive cloning?

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The use of cloning techniques to produce a baby

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What is embryonic stem cell cloning?

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A type of genetic engineering which is used to create new, identical life through embryonic stem cells from a human embryo, solely for the purpose of research

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Up to what age can scientists experiment on embryos?

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Up to 14 days old

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What is the purpose of embryo experimentation?

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To research the causes of miscarriage, contraception, infertility and genetically inherited diseases such as Parkinson’s

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What is therapeutic cloning?

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Another term for stem cell cloning- producing an identical human embryo solely for the purpose of research

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What are hybrid embryos?

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Embryos which are developed by putting human DNA into animal eggs

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Why are hybrid embryos used?

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There is a shortage of human eggs available for research and stem cells can be harvested from these embryos to find cures for genetic diseases

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Advantages of GM crops

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Arguments for embryo research/therapeutic cloning

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Christian arguments against embryo research

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Christian arguments concerning hybrid embryos

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