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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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

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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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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This situation was discovered in Nuremberg Trials, and ethical and legal standards for medical experimentation were set then. ... For example, it is not very ethical to test a young girl for a sex linked genetic disease. ...

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