Author: lilynichols

Ethical and Moral Reasoning

Volume 1, Issue 1

October 12, 2016

Conscience Decisioning

By: Lily Nichols

There are people out there who do not know if they should follow their conscience or do what everyone else would do. In the article, it was mainly about how people would spend more money on environmentally friendly companies verses any other company. It is all about if you are smart with your decision. If you want to spend all your money then that is your decision, but is it a smart one? You have to plan ahead of what you are going to do and how it will affect your future. You have to think, “Will I be okay in the end?””Will this affect anybody else?”etc.. If all those answers turn out great, then yes, go with your conscience decision. It is not a bad thing, it is a bold thing.

Male Pig + Female Pig = Human Baby?

Scientists are now “playing God” by using animals to create human organs. They are making embryos called chimeras to grow in pigs to use for humans. Scientists are starting off by making the pig grow a human pancreas to help with people who have diabetes. The National Institute of Health has put a halt to this because of the dangers that could potentially come to us humans and the animals as well. “This could be a kind of violation” says Jason Robert, a bioethicist at Arizona State University. Stuart Newman who is a professor of cell biology and anatomy at New York Medical College, says, "If a male chimeric pig mated with a female chimeric pig, the result could be a human fetus developing in the uterus of that female chimera.” If this happens, some children will have no parents. Our future will not be even decently okay. If the health department does not agree with this, then either will our society. We can find something else to help with our own diseases. Animal abuse is no option.
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-05-19/scientists-working-to-form-embryos-that-are-animal-and-human

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Forced Chemotherapy

Cassandra is a seventeen year old girl with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. She has two ethical issues: either she continues with chemotherapy treatment, or she stops it. Cassandra has decided that she does not want chemotherapy to continue any longer but because she is not a legal adult, her parents must make the decision. Cassandra’s mother decided she wanted to do what her daughter wanted to do but the law did not agree with that. The courts overruled her decision and took Cassandra into foster care instead to be away from her mother. Teens should be able to have a voice about their own health. This article just shows how abusive they were towards her and her mother. Cassandra will be eighteen within a year and she still has no control. Chemotherapy does not always work and she just does not want to go through the pain. This really shows what our courts are doing to families in need.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ruth-macklin/the-ethical-dilemma-of-fo_b_6457592.html

Is this your next parent?