Health Sciences 2610F/G Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Infant, Amniocentesis, Fetus
8 Feb 2018
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The development of assisted reproductive technologies introduced a new set of biomedical, legal, and ethical issues. Techniques such as amniocentesis, sperm sorting and preimplantation genetic diagnosis (pigd) can determine the sex of the embryo or fetus. The most fiercely debated form of reproductive technology is therapeutic cloning, this involves cloning embryos to derive embryonic stem (es) cells that might rejuvenate tissues and organs damaged from degenerative diseases. Conservative opponents of abortion maintain that a human being exists from the time of conception and has the same right to life as any other human. A more moderate position is that a fetus does not have an equal right to life until it has reached viability, the capacity to survive outside the womb. Another similar position holds that a right to life depends on sentience, the capacity to experience pain or pleasure. The most liberal view on abortion says that an individual has a right to life only at birth and thereafter.
