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Ethics in Health Care Today, Term Paper
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Topic:Ethics In Healthcare
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(Evangelium Vitae, encyclical letter on the value and the inviolability of Human Life)
What the Pope was referring to was the debate over the ethics of stem cell research, and cloning and to other related issues that deal with experimenting with human embryos and fetuses. In fact, today, embryos can be created in a Petri dish, through in vitro fertilization, and these embryos are used for stem cell extraction and research. It is the use of these embryos that the Church objects vociferously to, because the Church feels that human life is not being allowed to reach its full potential through these methods. However, stem cells can be extracted from the umbilical cord of the mother soon after the child is born, or even from adults, and there is no objection to this, because there is no perceived loss of life. The fear in legalizing such research is that abortion would also become legalized, and as a result, there would be many severe consequences for man, in that there would no resolution to the debate of whether the fetus is a life or not, and whether aborted fetuses used for research may have become human lives, if allowed to grow. The ethical debates regarding these issues will not be solved easily in the near future, and one can only hope that there would be more human lives saved as a result of research than lost. (Is Stem Cell Research Moral?)
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Health, Doctors face Ethical Dilemmas" Retrieved at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/127010.stm. Accessed 29 August, 2005
Helping Hospitals address Hospital Dilemmas" (July 26, 2002) A New Guide from the United Hospital Fund. Retrieved at http://www.uhfnyc.org/press_release3159/press_release_show.htm?doc_id=117072Accessed 29 August, 2005
McCloskey, Patrick. "Is Stem Cell Research Moral?" Retrieved at http://www.americancatholic.org/News/StemCell/ask_stemcell.asp. Accessed 29 August, 2005
Paul, John II. "Evangelium Vitae, encyclical letter on the value and the inviolability of Human Life" Retrieved at http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02ev.htm. Accessed 29 August, 2005
Paul, Ranalli. (Spring 2001) "Induced Abortion and Breast Cancer" Vital Signs:
Canadian Physician for Life Newsletter. Retrieved From http://64.233.161.104/search?q=cache:4AZ4BMcyga0J:www.physiciansforlife.ca/VS%25202001%2520Spring.pdf+ethical+implications+of+post-abortion+fetal+tissue+and+stem+cell+research.&hl=en" http://www.physiciansforlife.ca/VS%202001%20Spring.pdf. Accessed 29 August, 2005
The ethics of human cloning and human stem cell research" (October 12, 2001) Report from California Cloning: A Dialogue on State Regulation, Held at Santa Clara University. Retrieved at http://www.scu.edu/ethics/publications/cloning.html. Accessed 29 August, 2005
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Health, Doctors face Ethical Dilemmas" Retrieved at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/127010.stm. Accessed 29 August, 2005
Helping Hospitals address Hospital Dilemmas" (July 26, 2002) A New Guide from the United Hospital Fund. Retrieved at http://www.uhfnyc.org/press_release3159/press_release_show.htm?doc_id=117072Accessed 29 August, 2005
McCloskey, Patrick. "Is Stem Cell Research Moral?" Retrieved at http://www.americancatholic.org/News/StemCell/ask_stemcell.asp. Accessed 29 August, 2005
Paul, John II. "Evangelium Vitae, encyclical letter on the value and the inviolability of Human Life" Retrieved at http://www.newadvent.org/library/docs_jp02ev.htm. Accessed 29 August, 2005
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