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Medical Experiments: Ethics of Experimentation with Aborted Foetus

By Gajanan Mamidwar (03)Venkatesh (26)

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Fetal Development

When does life begin? ± At moment of conception

± Embryo stage: second to eleventh week ± Fetus: third month

± At birth

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Embryo at 5±6 Weeks in Utero (Petit Format/Nestle/Photo Researchers, Inc.)

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C ase 1: Designer Babies

How this was d on e :Chr omo s om es were take n fr om on ezyg ote ² the si ngle cell f or med whe n sper m a nd eggfuse ² a nd put i nto a zyg ote stripped of its original

chr omo s om es, but left with its original mitoch on dria,which pr ov ide each hu ma n cell with e nergy. Fearful of desig ner babies a nd lon g-ter m health

uncertai nties, c ountries like Fra nce a nd Ger ma ny ha veba nn ed ger m line ge netic e ngineeri ng.

Is this a assault on repr oducti ve freed om ? Is n¶t it ridicul ous a nd irresp on sible ?

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C ase 2: Synthetic Blood

Synthetic bl oo d fr om discarded IVF e mbry os a ndab orted f oetuses.Could sa ve th ousa nds of lives by re vo lution ising bl oo dtra nspla nt ser vices. S hould researchers g o ahead ?

Is it u nethical t o use hu ma n e mbry os a nd ter minatedf oetuses i n this way ? Donated bl oo d als o carries the risk of infecti on fr om HIV,hepatitis a nd Creutzfeldt-Jak ob disease, the hu ma n f or m of mad c ow disease.

Funded by the Wellc om e Trust a nd the N HS(UK)

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C ase 3: Human C loningMass-pr oduci ng on e's own ide ntical t wins i n thelab orat ory s o they ca n be expl oited as ³Y our O wn Pers on al Bi ological Repair Kit" whe n disease or injurystrikes.

Ca nada, Australia, Fra nce, Ger ma ny, N or way ha veba nn ed the practice c om pletely

For s om e diseases, ge netically matched cells areunn ecessary; f or others, they are useless, because they

on ly replicate the ge netic pr ofile that is part of thepr oble m.Clon ing is pr obably useless f or aut o-imm une diseaseslike Ju ve nile Diabetes, where the b ody mistake nlyre jects its own insuli n-pr oduci ng cells as th ough theywere f oreig n.

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Clo ning and S o matic C e ll Nuc lear Transfer (S C NT)

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legal terms on Abortion .First trimester: decision to have abortionbetween woman and her physician

Second trimester: state may regulate medicalconditions under which an abortion isperformedThird trimester: state may prohibit allabortions except to save the life of the mother

or protect maternal health

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When an Abortion Is ethical

R ape and incest

Severe fetal deformity

The health of the motherThe life of the mother

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U ses of aborted foetuses

Many viral vaccines (e.g. Polio, Mumps)Bacterial vaccines (e.g. Diphtheria, Tetanus)Rabies

Hepatitis A-B C omboChickenpox , smallpoxHIVParkinsonKidneys and livers failures

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Purpose of aborted foetusesMany opposing viewpoints have been raised on themorality of using vaccines, which are cultivated onaborted fetal cell lines.Kidneys and livers from aborted foetuses could be

given to the desperately ill and ease the organ doorshortage, a leading scientist has claimed.foetal tissues may offer a more realistic solution tothe lack of organs than other technologies being

developed.

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Purpose of aborted foetuses

Almost 7,000 of the 8,000 Britons waiting for a transplantneed a kidney. More than 300 are hoping for a liver, 222need lungs and almost 100 have requested a heart.

Kidney donors have a less than one-in-three chance of receiving an organ in any given year, and hundreds on thetransplant list will die before a donor becomes available.Kidneys can be provided by a live donor, but this involvesmajor surgery.

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C hristian & Muslim religionists , say the transplants would be

immoral as every human being, even the unborn, deserved'protection, respect, wonder and empathy'.

But , these fetuses are already dead. They were terminatedby elective abortion --. These fetal human beings are now tobe used as sources for organs and tissues .

Abortion time limit to be lowered, had no

ethical objections to the proposal.

Arguments for foetus organs in transplants

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