PHIL226 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Eugenics, Deaf Culture, Reprogenetics
21 Apr 2016
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Legal battle that went on john and luanne broke up, john said he didn"t want anything to do with baby (not his sperm, not married to wife anymore, no relationship with egg donor) This is why we have biomedical ethics now- we need ethics to face these new technologies as the new human situation. Supported by: basic ethical value: don"t mess with anyone"s individual liberty a lot of people say it might be the only ethical value that"s important. Eugenics: perfecting genes- in past, sterilization was a big thing in canada/usa if people were deemed unfit to reproduce. Reprogenetics: we have rights over our reproduction (rights based) Good to be what you truly are nature sets a limit for what is a good life/bad life somehow wrong to violate that. A lot of roman catholics have this position. Deaf culture: people will argue that being deaf is not in any way a defect.
