Assessment
for Activities
1. The most important ethical considerations in ART are: (Answer:
a)
a. Direct harms and benefits to stakeholders
b. The strength of someone’s desire to have biologically related
children
c. Potential social effects from allowing technology to replace
natural reproduction
2. Rights are the sort of things that apply to (Answer: a)
a. Persons as defined by law
b. Future generations
c. Non-human animals
3.
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights provides: Article 12
No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his ...family...
and Article 16
Men and women of full age have the right to ...found a family.
Given these ideals, (Answer: a)
a.
access to ART should only be limited by government for serious
health concerns as with other medical technologies about which
persons have moral disagreements
b. decisions to extend years of procreative life have significant
social impacts and therefore it is appropriate for government
to limit access to ART at later ages
c. Families can be founded by adopting children who are not biologically
related and so access to ART can be limited without moral objection.
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