O
onetruerick2008
Guest
If Nature has made you unable to reproduce the natural way, is it ethical to use extraordinary medical means to subvert nature? I would exclude conditions caused by accidental injury or no-genetic illness. But if a person has to have access to microscopes, perti dishes, and a whole medical lab to achieve pregancy, or needs a team of doctors and nurses and lots of medications in order to carry a fetus to term, is 'right' to do so? In other words, is it a selfish act to perpetuate your genes if they don't work right? Is it okay to pass on a condition like spina bifida to your descendants? Or does the potential harm to future generations outweigh any need that a potential parent might have, such as the need to nurture one's own genetic offspring or the desire to pass on a family name?
If it is acceptable to use any means necessary, then how far would it be alright to go? What would be unacceptable - taking another life, say an old person's? Just as an example.
If it is acceptable to use any means necessary, then how far would it be alright to go? What would be unacceptable - taking another life, say an old person's? Just as an example.