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Genetic Engineering - Coggle Diagram
Genetic Engineering
Embryology
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ethical issues : moral status of embryo (personhood, potentiality), Sanctity of life, costs vs benefit
embryos have potentiality to become human, so have a right to life - BUT : most embryos wasted away in fertility treatment anyways, how far does this go back (sperm and egg have potential if they conjoin)
Catholic - soul joins body at conception - "before I formed you in the womb, I knew you"
BUT : 2/3 of embryos are spontaneously aborted - embryo can split into twins up to 14 days (2 souls?) - emergency contraception Dows not stop conception stops implantation
better. sentiocentricism (20 weeks) - "not can it think or talk, but can it suffer"
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screening
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STRENGTHS : health benefits, reduced cost to medical services later in life, preempts need for late term abortion, selecting embryo that may have been born anyways (natural)
CRITICISMS : what is considered a defect, changes view on disability, leads to designer babies if certain traits seen as more desirable
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wider reading
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Savulescu : GE more reliable version of how we have always chosen to evolutionarily select mating partners
Sandel : 'giftedness' - our characteristics are not created distinctly by us as there is an aspect beyond our control
Christian approach : we should not interrupt God's plan, God created us in our image and so it is wrong to try and edit human nature ourselves
Savulesco : but making choice to not genetically modify is still making the decision to consign children to natural lottery - must accept responsibility - giving parents choose is proving possibility of a good life for child
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Virtue ethics
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Focus on eudimonia and enhancing human flourishing - but are superficial qualities distracting us from what's important
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