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Surrogacy and Cloning By: Liz Dove, Ebony Staples, Taylor Cavette, Cassandra Johnson, Megan Canny, & Cassandra Kimberly
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Surrogacy Definition: woman who gestates a fetus for others, usually for a couple or another woman – Traditional surrogacy – Gestational surrogacy
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Purdy’s Stance on Surrogacy Laura Purdy’s approach to surrogacy: – Pros: Infertility Health risks Disease prevention Non-traditional families – Cons: Baby-selling Potential for coercion
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Rothman’s Stance on Surrogacy Paid surrogacy is baby-selling Children are not for sale Fetus is part of the maternal body
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Surrogacy – Interesting Fact Traditional Surrogacy Fees – $40,000 - $65,000 Gestational Surrogacy Fees – $75,000 - $100,000
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Surrogacy – Major Moral Theories Utilitarian Rule-Utilitarian Kantian Natural Law Theory
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Surrogacy vs. Adoption Surrogacy- – Genetic relation to child – Usually cheaper Adoption – No genetic relation to child – Usually more expensive – More difficult to adopt due to scarcity of children
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Case of Mary Beth Whitehead Over 20 years ago Whitehead was a surrogate mother for William and Elizabeth Sterns. After the birth on March 27, 1986, Whitehead would not give the baby to the Stern’s and left the state with the infant.
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Cloning Definition: the asexual production of a genetically identical entity from an existing one – Important to understand a clone is not a perfect copy of an individual – Instead, a clone is a living thing that shares a set of genetic instructions with another – Video Video
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Cloning Reproductive cloning – Creating a genetic duplicate of an adult animal or human – 1997 an adult sheep was cloned, which resulted in the birth of “Dolly”
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Author’s Viewpoints
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Cloning – Pros & Cons
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Cloning – Major Moral Theories Utilitarian - Good verses bad consequences for everyone involved -Cloning is morally admissible -Rule Utilitarian’s view -My View’s on Cloning
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Cloning-Major Moral Theories Kantian Deontology -Kant states, “Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own words or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.” -It is possible by this theory to oppose or defend cloning.
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Cloning-Major Moral Theories Natural Law Theory -Moral standards discerned in nature through human reason -Doctrine of Double Effect -Backed by Roman Catholic Church -Morally impermissible
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Cloning – Case Studies
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Conclusion Cloning- Major Moral Theories -Utilitarian -Kantian Deontology -Natural Law Theory
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References Adoption.com. (2010). Surrogacy. Retrieved from http://adopting.adoption.com/child/surrogacy.html http://adopting.adoption.com/child/surrogacy.html Discovery Networks. (2009 April 29). Human cloning [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbxN5uwaqAhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7tbxN5uwaqA JNJ Health. (2009, December 7). Gestational surrogacy [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2VcxbAgrWMc&feature=related Vaughn, L. (2010). Bioethics: Principles, issues, and cases. New York, NY: Oxford.
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