Medical Ethics
Medical Ethics | Multiple Births Are an Acceptable Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
With Guinness multiple births like the Iowa McCaughey septuplets or the Chukwu octuplets of Houston, gratitude emerges: “Better thee than we.” Just the Huggies bills and colic necessitate a declaration of cruel and unusual punishment.
The Hypocrisy of Condemning Multiple Births
Also with these multiple births come medical ethicists and zero-population growthers (who since 1970 have been predicting Old Testament locust plagues if childbearing continued) with a rousing chorus of grinching. Their bemoaning of fecundity includes “irresponsible,” “techno...
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- Introduction
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Chapter 1: Should Physicians Ever Hasten Patients’ Deaths?
- Prolonging Life and Death: An Overview
- Physicians Should Not Provide Futile Treatment
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Physicians Should Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physicians Should Not Withhold Lifesaving Treatments
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Violates Medical Ethics
- Physicians Should Not Be Permitted to Assist in Suicide
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Physician-Assisted Suicide Is Consistent with Medical Ethics
- Chapter 2: What Ethics Should Guide Organ Transplants?
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Chapter 3: Are Reproductive Technologies Ethical?
- Reproductive Technologies: An Overview
- Reproductive Technologies Are a Valid Medical Treatment
- Reproductive Technologies Can Be Consistent with Christian Beliefs
- Multiple Births Are an Acceptable Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
- Cloning Can Be an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
- Reproductive Technologies Are Morally Problematic
- Some Reproductive Technologies Violate Christian Beliefs
- Multiple Births Are a Harmful Consequence of Assisted Reproduction
- Cloning Is Not an Acceptable Means of Reproduction
- Chapter 4: What Ethics Should Guide Biomedical Research?
- Organizations to Contact
- Bibliography
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