However, moral and ethical issues are also raised. ... Ultimately, we must ask ourselves whether the benefits outweigh the risks and whether the ethical dilemmas can ever be satisfied. ... Other ethical concerns have been raised by the deformities in cloned animals. ... This has raised further ethical dilemmas about who will "own- cloning technology and its products. Is it ethical to patent a life form? ...

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This new technology is bringing with it a host of new legal and ethical dilemmas. ... This is mainly an ethical question, but it also has legal ramifications since the doctor/patient relationship is regulated by a code of conduct (Foubister). ... Prenatal testing is a growing trend that brings with it several difficult ethical situations. There is the dilemma of whether or not to bring a baby into the world that may have serious medical problems either from the start, or sometime down the road. ...

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This new technology is bringing with it a host of new legal and ethical dilemmas. ... This is mainly an ethical question, but it also has legal ramifications since the doctor/patient relationship is regulated by a code of conduct (Foubister). ... Prenatal testing is a growing trend that brings with it several difficult ethical situations. There is the dilemma of whether or not to bring a baby into the world that may have serious medical problems either from the start, or sometime down the road. ...

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The federal police are pushing for a national database to help solve crime and are asking for legislation to be allowed to collect DNA samples from people accused, or suspected of committing an offence (the Australian, 06.12.1997 see appendix one) The proposal has sparked a moral dilemma. ... DNA testing involves many moral and ethical dilemmas, such as who it actually belongs to, the accuracy of the results, the costs, the possibility of misuse. ...

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Genetic manipulation is a field of good intentions and slow progress. It is done in hope of making better and improved lives for everyone through changing genetic structure. These practices have been questioned however by those that morally think that only God should have the control over someone...

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Send in the Clones A controversial issue of the twenty-first century is the possible application of new techniques in genetic engineering to produce human clones. Up until now genetic engineering and cloning has been used to clone plants, unicellular organisms, amphibians and simple mammals. This...

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This conflict, very similar to the issue of human cloning, contains many ethical and moral questions that nearly everyone in our society will inevitably have to face. ... This morally causes a major dilemma with religion as well. ... The human genome project has many moral and ethical issues that everyone on earth will inevitably have to face. ...

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So this presents a dilemma for businesses; should they go ahead and use the cheaper crops and turn that into a bigger profit, or should they be concerned with the possible damage that they could do to the environment? ... With regards to making an ethical business decision, it is really difficult to say if choosing to use these genetically modified crops would be considered unethical. ... The evidence in this case makes it tough to come to a conclusion on what a business should do if they are faced with the dilemma about using this technology. ...

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Weiss makes the analogy that "no one complained when small pox was eradicated from the planet. . .If it is ethical to wipe out infectious diseases with vaccines and drugs, why not make an equal effort to eliminate inherited scourges as well, such as sickle cell disease and cystic fibrosis- (p.8)? ...

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What is cloning? Cloning is making an exact copy of an animal or plant, or exact copies of certain cells of plants and animals. Cloning can be very dangerous and there are many risks involved, since our society and technology isn't yet acquainted with the subject. Some scientists on the other hand, ...

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Genetic engineering has now become viable option to this dilemma. ... To some genetic engineering might seem as a new application of technology that can have a positive impact on society, however there are many underlying issues that are making some question how ethical and safe it really is. ...

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It also presents us with some grave economical, moral and religious dilemmas, and therefore the research into this procedure is not currently being conducted to its fullest potential until these issues are resolved. ...

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"We improve our favourite plants and animals "and how few they are "gradually by selective breeding; now a new and better peach, now a seedless grape, now a sweeter and larger flower, now a more convenient breed of cattle. We improve them gradually, because our ideals are vague and tentative and ou...

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