Deck 8: Life and Death: Issues in Biomedical Ethics

Question 1

A modern change in health care is that much responsibility for decision making has moved away from the physician to the __________.

A) hospital
B) patient
C) insurance company
D) family

Answer 1

patient

Question 2

Roe v. Wade dramatically changed the legal status of __________.

A) abortion
B) stem cell research
C) cloning
D) euthanasia

Answer 2

abortion

Question 3

"Late-term" refers to the time __________.

A) before a fetus is viable
B) before conception
C) after a fetus is viable
D) after conception

Answer 3

after a fetus is viable

Question 4

Many pro-choice advocates believe that the decision to have an abortion should only be made by __________.

A) government
B) the father
C) a doctor
D) the woman

Question 5

The process of placing a ripe ovum into a lab dish with sperm is called __________.

A) artificial insemination
B) in vitro fertilization
C) cloning
D) stem cell research

Question 6

Surrogate motherhood makes it possible for a couple to rear a child who is biologically, and most likely, __________.

A) related to the father only
B) related to the mother only
C) unrelated to either parent
D) related to both parents

Question 7

One ethical question is whether __________ violates the husband-wife relationship.

A) artificial insemination
B) in vitro fertilization
C) cloning
D) stem cell research

Question 8

In 2000, Tony Blair and Bill Clinton announced that the __________ had been deciphered.

A) human genome
B) cause of cancer
C) end of life
D) secret to biomedical parents

Question 9

According to Christian morality, we have a moral obligation to __________ the helpless.

A) eliminate
B) care for
C) ignore
D) evaluate

Question 10

In 1997, Ian Wilmut successfully __________.

A) harvested stem cells
B) mapped the human genome
C) cloned a person
D) cloned an animal

Question 11

One of the Council on Bioethics's five most important possible uses for cloning was __________.

A) to avoid genetic disease
B) to create super humans
C) to produce healthier animals
D) to reproduce beloved pets

Question 12

One of the ethical quandaries regarding cloning is what would happen to __________ embryos.

A) failed
B) created
C) left over
D) damaged

Question 13

Unlike adult stem cells, embryonic stem cells can develop into __________ tissue.

A) brain
B) organ
C) heart
D) any

Question 14

It is not morally permissible to remove an organ from a donor who is __________.

A) sick
B) alive
C) unwilling
D) poor

Question 15

The problem of meeting the need for organ transplants is an issue of __________.

A) administration
B) matching
C) scarcity
D) technology

Question 16

Doctors confront ethical issues in performing organ transplants, in part, because of the risk to the __________.

A) patient
B) donor
C) hospital
D) doctor

Question 17

One of the moral difficulties in the advancements of medicine the problem of determining __________ death occurs.

A) why
B) when
C) how
D) whether

Question 18

Because of medical advancements, we have begun to reject the idea that there is a time to __________.

A) heal
B) parent
C) die
D) be born

Question 19

Patients' rights include the right to be treated __________.

A) as a living human being
B) as an equal
C) fairly compared to other patients
D) regardless of ability to pay

Question 20

The issue of __________ questions whether a person can ever act morally in helping a terminally ill patient end their life.

A) biomedicine
B) cloning
C) abortion
D) euthanasia

Question 21

Can a terminally ill person ever refuse treatment? What factors would be important to making that kind of decision?

Question 22

Who should be responsible for making medical decisions for a patient? How does your answer change when the patient is incapable of making any decisions for him or herself?

Question 23

Does surrogacy violate the sanctity of the marital bond? Can a couple still consider themselves faithful?

Question 24

Compare the ethical questions that relate to surrogacy and artificial insemination. Are the moral issues the same or different? Would varying religious traditions view these procedures differently?

Question 25

Cloning a human being is now a technological possibility. What moral hazards are present in cloning people? How can we navigate those issues?

Question 26

Write an argument explaining your personal beliefs regarding abortion. Make sure to identify the moral basis for your stance.

Question 27

Make a pro and con list for stem cell research. Once done, consider which interests appear most important.

Question 28

Who should decide when a person is dead for the purpose of organ transplant? What other moral concerns arise in organ donation? How can those moral issues be resolved?

Question 29

Late-term abortion is now illegal. Are there circumstances in which late-term abortion could be moral? What circumstances, if any, might abortion generally be moral?

Question 30

How does cloning undermine the concept of personal identity? Are personality and identify different or the same in this context?