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Applied Ethics - The Embryo and the fetus
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Applied Ethics - The Embryo and the fetus
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1. In 1978 the birth of ----------- raised a new issue about the status of early human life
2. A human fetus is not an innocent human being- Who holds this position?
3. Edwards has predicted that the embryo which is produced by IVF develops blood stem cells from the ----- days after fertilization.
4. Conservatives argued --------- have the same human features and the same degree of awareness and capacity for feeling pain.
5. "Until ---------------- abortion was illegal in almost all the Western democracies."
6. After 1967 Britain changed its law to allow abortion on board -------------------
7. Liberalists argued that, -----------------is the most visible possible dividing line between fertilized egg and child.
8. In the 1973 case of --------------- the United States Supreme Court held that women have a constitutional right to an abortion in the first six months of pregnancy.
9. Ultrasound studies have shown that fetuses do in fact start moving as ------------ weeks after fertilization
10. ----------- accepts a system of rights and obligations that allows us to justify our actions independently of their consequences.
11. The first anatomical feature, the so-called primitive streak, appears after the - -------day of fertilisation
12. IVF is related with:
13. A law that has more bad effects than good ones is a bad law – Who suggested this view?
14. --------------- argued that consciousness is the morally crucial dividing line between the newborn baby and the fetus.
15. Liberalist argued that----------------------- is the morally crucial dividing line between the newborn baby and the fetus.
16. ‘Silent scream’ is related with:
17. Peter Singer put ------------ as the criteria for antiabortion stand point instead of the criteria of Homo sapiens.
18. Until 1967, abortion was illegal in almost all the Western democracies except - ------------
19. In an IVF Procedure embryos can be screened for genetic abnormalities, and then -------- if such abnormalities are found.
20. The location of a being – inside or outside the womb – should not make that much difference to the wrongness of killing it. Who holds this position?
21. ----------- accepts a system of rights and obligations that allows us to justify our actions independently of their consequences.
22. Primitive streak will develop as:
23. Opponents of abortion really want to uphold the right to life of the human being from ------------------, irrespective of whether it is conscious or not.
24. ----------------- of abortion really want to uphold the right to life of the human being from conception, irrespective of whether it is conscious or not.
25. The issue of abortion re-surfaced in Eastern Europe after the -------------------