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Mind Map by Rachel Wallace, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Rachel Wallace
almost 9 years ago
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Right to a Child
- Moral Issues
- Is a child a gift?
- Do all men and women have
the right to a child?
- Do women of any age
have the right to a child?
- Who should pay for IVF?
- Is having a child
by artificial
methods playing
God?
- Is a child a gift?
- Christian Ethics
- SOL
- important if some of the
embryos are used for foetal
research or are simply
disposed of if unwanted.
- important if some of the
embryos are used for foetal
research or are simply
disposed of if unwanted.
- The child is a gift from God
- There are concerns
about older women and
the development of
saviour siblings.
- Some Christians argue that women
should have the same rights as men
and that age should not be a barrier.
- Other Christians say
that they should just
accept their infertility as
God did not intend them
to have children.
- Some Christians argue that women
should have the same rights as men
and that age should not be a barrier.
- There are concerns
about older women and
the development of
saviour siblings.
- The Sanctity of marriage
- a child should be raised
in the context of a
heterosexual, permanent
relationship between
parents.
- This approach prohibits homosexual
couples or single women from using sperm
donors or surrogates to become parents.
- This approach prohibits homosexual
couples or single women from using sperm
donors or surrogates to become parents.
- a child should be raised
in the context of a
heterosexual, permanent
relationship between
parents.
- SOL
- Natural Law
- Any means other
than natural
conception would be
rejected.
- The idea of masturbation to
obtain sperm is wrong.
- Preservation of life and the belief that all life has equal status
- The destruction of embryos goes against these primary precepts.
- The destruction of embryos goes against these primary precepts.
- Is an absolute theory
- Do not take into
consideration the
consequences of
actions.
- Do not take into
consideration the
consequences of
actions.
- Any means other
than natural
conception would be
rejected.
- Utilitarianism
- Would weigh up the pleasure and pain involved.
- All actions are judged by consequences
- The happiness of the greatest
number would consider the cost of
the health service and whether
money could be better spent in
life-saving operations.
- Preference would
consider that
no-one's happiness is
more important than
another's so the
happiness of the
couple is considered.
- Doesn't protect the status
of the embryo
- Doesn't see it as
sacred in any way.
- Doesn't see it as
sacred in any way.
- Would weigh up the pleasure and pain involved.
- Kantian Ethics
- The categorical
imperative demands
that people are
treated as ends not
means.
- This would apply to the embryo
if it is considered to be a person
and to others involved, such as a
sperm/egg donor and
surrogates.
- This would apply to the embryo
if it is considered to be a person
and to others involved, such as a
sperm/egg donor and
surrogates.
- All humans
should have the
same moral
treatment.
- Danger of
treating the
creation of
human life as
just another
consumer good.
- Can you universalise
IVF to every infertile
couple?
- The categorical
imperative demands
that people are
treated as ends not
means.
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