Religion and Medical Issues A) (i) There are many different treatments available that are available to people who are infertile. Different treatments are all given to people with different conditions. ... In general Roman Catholics believe that using infertility treatments is wrong, this stems from four main ideas. ... So therefore having a child through complicated medical procedures which are unnatural is wrong. ... They believe that using treatments like GIFT and IVF are just using Gods" gift of intelligence and it is what he wants. ...

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These billions of dollars can be redirected to prevention, public health programs, treatment and clinical research. ... Professional groups of medical doctors, like the Medical Research Modernization Committee, are now at the cutting edge on the scientific movement advocating that animal tests be replaced with the new methodologies. ... The researchers conclude that much needed improvements in treatment can be expected from human tissue studies. ... Despite animal researchers routinely take credit for virtually every medical advance; a growing number of medical historians are revealing that me...

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The most common treatment of cancer is chemotherapy. ... About 1/10 of American couples can't conceive and in many cases medical treatments can't help them. Federal statistics show that less than 20% of infertile citizens are successful with normal treatment. ... Cloning for Medical Purposes. 17 May 1999. ... The New Complete Medical and Health Encyclopedia. 2000 ed. ...

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The medical service already has enough pressures of its own, is it really fair to add another one to its load? Also would the decision made by the doctor be made on sound medical reasons or would it be made on depending on personal views of the doctor in question. ... Medical advances in recent years have made it possible to keep terminally ill people alive for an extended period of time, without any hope of improvement or recovery. ... Most states now legally allow the making of such wills that instruct medical personnel to stop treatment or refuse life-support treatment in cases that are see...

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Are medical experiments on animals justified? ... (Www.amprogress.org) Thanks to animal-based research there is a new molecular and genetic understanding of a tumors biology and allows for doctors to set up treatment to more directly kill cancer cells. ... Baldwin, received PETAs Humanitarian Award in 2005, but broke off with PETA over the value of animal research in developing treatments for breast cancer and served on the advisory board for the Carol M. ... Now comes the argument of the morality of eating meat which no doubt touches on the debate of animal rights and has a far less positive...

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"The cause of action there will be one that might be anchored in just the liberty interest to pursue a medical cure or in pursuing the medical profession to find that cure"(Works cited, 1). ... Some see it as an insult to humanity, yet others are fighting for the chance to be able to use this technology for medical advances and cures. "Cloning could shed light on how genes work and lead to the discovery of new treatments for genetic diseases. ... The United Kingdom has established a publicly funded medical research council, which already sets up fast track grants to attract international ...

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As an animal rights proponent, my commitment is to stand firm against the unjust cruelty and inhumane treatment of all animals. ... Many farm animals used in the production of food, and factory food products go through horrendous and inhumane treatment. ... The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Americans for Responsible Medical Advancement, disagree with dog labs which many medical schools use, arguing that there are more humane and applicable options to animal dissection. ... Harvard University Medical school no longer uses dog labs. ... Therefore, we as humans should ...

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The American Medical Association calls cloning the application of "Somatic Cell Nuclear Transfer". ... There will be one day stem cells will be used to replace cells in the treatment of diseases like heart disease, Alzheimer's, and cancer. ... It is just as safe as other medical procedures that currently exist and that there were many objections to other procedures that have helped many people, for example heart transplants and other life-saving treatments. ... Medical effects also splice into cloning as being a bad idea. ... Cloning can be very beneficial in the improvement of the...

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In newborn screening and prenatal testing it is evident that early treatment will pose beneficial for the treatment and detection of diseases; however, what happens in the case of an incurable disease? ... The implementation of these tests may permit doctors to predetermine the severity of a disease which in turn provides the ability to implement early treatment. ... According to Jason Kjono, one of the pros of prenatal testing is that early diagnosis on a suspect fetus will allow for ample time to establish the best possible treatment and course of action. Unfortunately, as for the cases wher...

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Assuming all of this, a baby that was cloned would be the age of its donating parent, a true medical problem. ... Along with this would go treatment for spontaneous abortions? ... Cloning could shed light on how genes work and lead to the discovery of new treatments for genetic diseases. ... Cloning is comparable in safety to a number of other medical procedures. ... We are constantly looking for medical breakthroughs in all areas. ...

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In order to solve the population issue better, it is necessary to primarily understand the underlying causes that have contributed to the population growing too large, and there are three major factors that have supported the contribution are advancement in medical technology, advancement in agricultural technology, and religious and cultural belief systems. First, advancement in medical might assist the population to become more and more because this important advancement has helped to both reduce the mortality rate for the older individuals and infants, and to extend life span. The invention...

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These horrific, dreaded diseases have killed millions of people due to doctors or scientists not having a cure, but thanks to a scientific and medical breakthrough these diseases can and will be a thing of the past. ... In order to continue with these medical and scientific breakthroughs " you have to accept the right-to-life argument in its most extreme form. ... Eventually, scientists hope to use them to repair damaged hearts after heart attacks, regenerate livers devastated by cirrhosis or viral disease, reconstruct damaged joints, or seed the brain with fresh neurons to reverse ...

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This research will aide in the medical field as we can use this knowledge to understand where certain birth defects or diseases originate (Fordham). ... With this research scientists will have a more complete understanding of the process and be able to develop more effective treatment or cures for these types of diseases. ... In the medical field today, the most common practice for treating organs that do not function properly is by transplant. ... United States is being forced to rely on older treatments instead of using the more advanced and effective ones (Park). ...

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Treatment by the doctor may be given to the mother as long as the treatment is meant to cure the illness and not abort the pregnancy. If the unborn child dies as a secondary result of these treatments then this is considered and indirect abortion. ... The term he proscribes is legitimate defence and it is defined as, "The intrinsic value of life and the duty to love oneself no less then others".9 In the Bible it also states, "You shall love your neighbour as yourself"(Mk 12:31); this coincides with indirect abortion because the mother of the unborn child must choose to seek...

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Courts and moral philosophers alike have long accepted the proposition that people have the right to refuse medical treatment they find painful or difficult to bear, even if that refusal means certain death. ... Whether you are pro euthanasia or not, all must agree that the line between living and dead has been blurred horribly by the medical advancements and technology of today, where a person could be "clinically alive," but be dependending on the machines to take their next breath. ...

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Human Cloning - Medical Breakthrough or have Scientists lost their Minds? ... Right now infertility treatments are about 10 percent effective (272) and the couples go through an intense amount of physical and emotional pain and suffering just for a slim chance that hopefully they will be able to produce a child. ... A spokesman for the Catholic Medical Association said, "any technology which seeks to create human life outside the normal conjugal act of husband and wife is immoral, precisely because it circumvents God's plan the cloning of human beings would be violation of natural a...

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I participated in my first service learning course during my second year of college. Prior to taking the course, I was completely ignorant about the course's focus, Animal Rights and the activism involved with it. I simply needed an English class to fulfill some of the general education courses required at my university. Through out the course I was constantly coming to new realizations and discovering how unjustly our society has been treating animals. To my surprise, I was finding out that this really was an issue that played a major role in the lives of everyone on the planet. ...

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She was admitted several hours later into the medical ICU in critical condition. ... She was put into a medical coma. Bonnie's doctors didn't know what treatment she needs to start to save her life. ...

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Therapeutic cloning is meant for medical research, and has no intention of creating entire human beings. Its purpose is simply a way to try to extend human life, which is what medical science has been doing since man's beginning. It has the potential to find cures or treatment for all major disease known to man. ...

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Although human cloning is a large and exciting milestone in the medical field, it should not be allowed. ... They would not be taking advantage of cloning for any medical purposes; after all it would not matter what decisions they made, they could always just start over in the next life. ... Kenan states, "By preventing cloning research, opponents are preventing the development of new treatments that draw upon cloning techniques-(Malik 806). ...

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The novel Not Wanted On The Voyage, by Timothy Findley creates great insight into the world of today, although it is told in reference to the biblical times. Many of the events in this novel parallels to our fast pace, morally inept and deteriorating society.. The ...

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Theoretically, Animal Rights are recognized as the rights to humane treatment claimed on behalf of animals, especially the right not to be exploited for human purposes. ... Secondly, the Animal Welfare Act seeks to protect animals used for scientific and medical research by limiting the procedures that can be performed. ...

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A novel can be judged in many ways for many things. One of these things is the relevance of its theme, not only to the time period of the book, but to the author's time period and the time period of the reader as well. For a book to have a lasting effect on society throughout the years, the reader o...

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This doesn't mean identical rights as humans, (this makes sense as humans do not have equal consideration of rights - for example, the right to deny medical treatment unlike children) however if we do accept equal consideration, all current animal practices will be morally wrong. ...

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Besides the money, and the inaccurate results of animal experimentation, there is a big controversy with such practices: the cruel treatment of animals. ... The process of making engineer tissue is much faster than animal testing, and it also decreases the medical costs dramatically. ...

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