Health Care Ethics

(Bioethics)

Module #13 Student Activity Sheet

Anthony C. Badili
Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

Lesson Title: Reproductive Issues Part 2 Materials:

Learning Targets:
At the end of the module, students will be able to:
1. Explain the process of In vitro fertilization and list the ethical
issues involved;
2. Understand the Family Planning Perspective; and,
3. Identify pro and con arguments for the issue of surrogacy.
Pen, paper, index card, book, and class List
References:
Ethics of Health Care: A Guide for Clinical
Practice Fourth Edition, Raymond S. Edge, J.
Randall Groves

A. LESSON PREVIEW/REVIEW

Brain Teaser: Describe traditionalism in three words or sentences and modernism as well for you to be able to
differentiate them.

Traditionalism
Answers:
 ___________________________________________
 ___________________________________________
 ___________________________________________

Modernism
Answers:
 ___________________________________________
 ___________________________________________
 ___________________________________________

B. MAIN LESSON

The Environmental Perspective

• See humans as members of a biotic community
• Duty to maintain a balance of numbers with other members of that community
• Maintain and perhaps encourage use of abortion as a tool to control world population
• Aggressive attitude toward family planning

The Family Planning Perspective

• Asks why we should favor accidental babies over planned babies
• People should have the right to choose at what point they will have their children
• Pro-life perspective: family planning example of decadent culture of permissiveness

In Vitro Fertilization
• Eggs removed from a woman and fertilized in a laboratory dish (by husband or another man)
• Embryos implanted in a woman (donor or other woman), where egg brought to term
• Extra, or spare, embryos
• Implantation process may fail and be repeated
• Freezing of embryos
• Rating them for quality
• Discarding those that hold genetic defects

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• Thawing them and disposing of them

– What happens to excess embryos can be a moral dilemma and controversial
• Women could postpone pregnancy without risking infertility or diseases of pregnancy
• Identifying genetic abnormalities
• Embryonic tissue in medical research
– Embryo: mitochondria, cytoplasm, DNA of mother and father

• In Vitro Fertilization or IVF is a complex series of procedures used to treat fertility or genetic problems and assist
with the conception of a child.
• IVF is a type of assisted reproductive technology used for infertility treatment and gestational surrogacy, in which
a fertilized egg is implanted into a surrogate’s uterus, and the resulting child is genetically unrelated to the
surrogate. Some countries banned or otherwise regulate the availability of IVF treatment, giving rise to fertility
tourism. Restrictions on availability of IVF include costs and age to carry a healthy pregnancy to term. IVF is
mostly attempted if less invasive or expensive options have failed or are unlikely to work. IVF is a choice for
couples who are not able to conceive without assistance.

Surrogacy

• When a woman agrees to carry a baby to term and give it up to another set of parents to raise
• Sometimes done for money, sometimes as a favor
– Pregnancy a deeply personal experience that should never be undergone for the sake of others
– Very reason surrogacy supreme gift to another
• Kantians: surrogacy problematic since birth mother is being used as incubator and not regarded as a rational
actor
• Utilitarian: faced with very complicated utility calculations
• Well-accepted practice despite misgivings of some people

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Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

CHECK FOR UNDERSTANDING

You will answer and rationalize this by yourself. This will be recorded as your quiz. One (1) point will be given to correct
answer and another one (1) point for the correct ratio. Superimpositions or erasures in you answer/ratio is not allowed.

1. The analogy titled “The Carpet-Seed Children Analogy” which attempts to deal with the issue of failed contraception is a
defense of abortion by?
A. Mary Anne Warren
B. Michael Tooley
C. Judith Thomson
D. Lydia Saad
Answer: ________
C
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Judith Thomson titled “The Carpet-Seed Children Analogy” which attempts to deal with the issue of failed
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
contraception is a defense of abortion
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2. When a woman agrees to carry a baby to term and give up to another parent is known as?
A. Surrogacy
B. Adoption
C. In vivo fertilization
D. Artificial Insemination
Answer: ________A
Surrogacy is when a woman agrees to carry a baby to term and give up to another parent
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

3. The most common ethical problems associated with the process of in vitro fertilization comes from what is to be done
with the unneeded.
A. Conceptus
B. Embryos
C. Egg
D. Sperm
B
Answer: ________
The most common ethical problems associated with the process of Embryos in vitro fertilization comes from
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
what is to be done with the unneeded
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
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4. In 1979, China introduced the to reduce the rate of their population growth.
A. Only boy child policy
B. Contraceptives policy
C. One child policy
D. No child policy
Answer: ________
C
In 1979, China introduced the one child policy to reduce the rate of their population growth
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________________________________________

5. This is a procedure in which eggs are removed from a woman and fertilized in a laboratory dish?
A. Surrogacy
B. In vivo fertilization
C. Artificial Insemination

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Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

D. In vitro fertilization
D
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
In vitro fertilization is a procedure in which eggs are removed from a woman and fertilized in a laboratory dish
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6. Laws that single out the medical practices of doctors who provide abortions and impose on them requirements that are
different and more burdensome than those imposed on other medical practices are called laws.
A. Trap
B. Stark
C. Pro-life
D. Pro-choice
D
Answer: ________
Pro-choice is single out the medical practices of doctors who provide abortions and impose on them
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
requirements that are different and more burdensome than those imposed on other medical practices are
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
called laws.
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7. Her birth received enormous press attention as the world was alerted to her birth. She was called the first “test tube
baby.”
A. Leslie Brown
B. Louise Brown
C. Karen Quinlan
D. Nancy Cruzan
B
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Louise Brown received enormous press attention as the world was alerted to her birth. She was called the
_________________________________________________________________________________________________
first “test tube baby.”
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8. It is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive outside the uterus.
A. Expulsion
B. Abortion
C. In vitro fertilization
D. Surrogacy
B
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Abortion is the ending of a pregnancy by removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus before it can survive
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outside the uterus
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9. He is the communist revolution that encouraged the population to multiply in China to increase available manpower.
A. Lao Tzu
B. Wo Bin
C. Mao Zedong
D. Kim Jong Ill
C
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
Mao Zedong is the communist revolution that encouraged the population to multiply in China to increase
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available manpower.
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10. What year did Congress enact the Hyde amendment?

A. 1976
B. 1967

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Name: _________________________________________________________________ Class number: _______

Section: ____________ Schedule: ________________________________________ Date: ________________

C. 1986
D. 1968
A
Answer: ________
Rationale:________________________________________________________________________________________
In 1976 Congress enact the Hyde amendment
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C. LESSON WRAP-UP

AL Activity: CAT: 3-2-1

Instructions:
1. As an exit ticket at the end of the class period
2. Record three things you learned from the lesson.
3. Next, two things that you found interesting and that you’d like to learn more about.
4. Then, record one question you still have about the lesson.

Three things you learned:

1. __________________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________________
3. __________________________________________________________________________________

Two things that you’d like to learn more about:

1. __________________________________________________________________________________
2. __________________________________________________________________________________

One question you still have:

1.___________________________________________________________________________________

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