Bioethics: Quiz #10 Genetic Choice and Basics of Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide

Some argue that gene therapy should not be permitted because it amounts to...

eugenics

Laura Purdy argues that we have an obligation to provide each child with something like a ...

minimally satisfying life

Dena Davis argues that deliberately creating a deaf child...

counts as a moral harm

John Harris argues that between attempts to cure dysfunction and attempts to enhance function (where the enhancement protects life or health), there is.....

no moral difference

Walter Glannon argues that genetic enhancement is...

morally illegitimate

Glannon argues that inequalities resulting from enhancements above the baseline of normal physical and mental functioning could threaten to undermine the conviction in the fundamental importance

Equality

Julian Savulescu argues that enhancement is no different than...

treating disease

proponents of active voluntary euthanasia believe that the right to die...

does not compel others

Dan Brock argues that voluntary active euthanasia is morally permissible because

of the values of self-determination and personal well-being

There is considerable agreement about the moral rightness of allowing a patient to die

T or F?

True