Cord Blood Case Study

In late 2011 Kelley was 30 she wanted to help a couple conceive and she could use the surrogate fee- often upwards of 20,000—to supplement her income as she raised her girls. In October 2011 the embryos were transferred to Kelley. She said she received not only the financial support that she had expected from the intended parents. But everything changed with her surrogacy on the day of her 21-week anatomy scan she saw flickers of concern come across the teach-in’s face during the scan. Then she started getting alarming message from the intended mother telling her to abort the baby because she’s not going to have an imperfect baby with a cleft palette.

The scientific community’s careless mistreatment of the Lacks family began with dehumanizing Henrietta’s cells in the very first lab. Generalizing people can especially be easy when one is working with their cells in a lab. The many scientists working on Henrietta’s cells must have found it easy to separate the cells from the person and reduce them to tools to aid them in the task at hand. This view may be harmless when it comes to the individual scientist, and the individual cell, but this view extended to the entire Lacks family and caused them much harm. “Meanwhile, Victor McKusick and Susan Hsu had just published the results of their research in

Though the use of pre-natal hereditary screening is as of now utilized as a part of high-hazard pregnancies for recognition of illness, for example, Down syndrome and Huntington 's chorea (Ridley 55, 98). As researchers decide the qualities for extra hereditary conditions, screening of incipient organisms will give more data to potential biological parents, former to their offspring has advanced. On the off chance that a screened embryo were found to convey qualities for a specific malady or inability, its guardians may specifically prematurely end it. This gives parents a choice of raising a child with a disability or back out if they don’t have the means to support the child financially, physically, emotionally or mentally. This is a good thing despite what others say because if a child is born with a disability in to family that doesn’t have the means to support it, it is unfair to all parties

In the article “Selecting the Perfect Baby: The Ethics of “Embryo Design,” is an article about a married couple, name Larry and June Shannon. They have a daughter, four years old, name Sally, who is diagnosed with Fanconi Anemia. Therefore, the Shannons are getting help from a research team, to find the perfect bone marrow transplant for Sally. The Shannon couple is also interested in having another child and they are aware of the risks and odds of success. However, a PGD process has to be performed and the couple must undergo an IVF procedure more than once, before the implantation is successful, to be able to produce a healthy full-term baby.

Picture a young couple in a waiting room looking through a catalogue together. This catalogue is a little different from what you might expect. In this catalogue, specific traits for babies are being sold to couples to help them create the "perfect baby." This may seem like a bizarre scenario, but it may not be too far off in the future. Designing babies using genetic enhancement is an issue that is gaining more and more attention in the news. This controversial issue, once thought to be only possible in the realm of science-fiction, is causing people to discuss the moral issues surrounding genetic enhancement and germ line engineering. Though genetic research can prove beneficial to learning how to prevent hereditary

In the early 1970s, researchers called the Lacks family requesting blood samples from Henrietta’s family so as to determine which cells were HeLa cells as they had begun contaminating other cell cultures in labs. One has to wonder if the need to identify HeLa cells from other cells hadn’t arisen, than perhaps the Lacks family would have never been told of impact of their mother’s cells. As it is, the researchers who contacted the Lacks family didn’t make much effort to explain the situation to Day Lacks, Henrietta’s husband, or her children. Mr. Lacks had only a third grade education, so he didn’t know

Gina Kolata’s article, Ethics Questions Arise as Genetic Testing of Embryos Increases (2014), explains that as the increase of the testing of embryos for parents to choose whether or not to have children has also brought its ethical questions in the light. Kolata uses the Kalinskys case, a family in the article, and how their neurological disease, Gerstmann-Straussler-Schinker (GSS), has raised questions for ethicists who have looked into the case. Kolata’s purpose in writing this article is to inform the audience on the growing topic of embryo testing and also the ethical question that also accompany in order to have the audience to develop a personal view on the issue. Given how the author explains the technical terms used within the article, Kolata is writing to an audience that is not fully aware of genetic testing.

Chapters 23 and 24 detail how scientists collected DNA samples from the Lacks family in the 1970s. Why were the doctors interested in collecting samples from Deborah and Henrietta’s children? Did they follow an informed consent process – in other words – did Deborah and the family members understand why their genetic material was being collected and how it would be used?

He proposed they contact the Lacks children to request samples from them so they could compare their DNA to the HeLa cells. When asked if informed consent had been given, McKusick replied, “I suspect there was no effort to explain anything in great detail. But I don’t believe anyone would have told them we were testing for cancer because that wasn’t the case” (183). Nevertheless, this is what the Lacks believed for years, causing Deborah to panic as she had long feared developing the same cancer that had killed her

Around the same time to the Hashmis another family, the Whitakers also requested approval from the HFEA for the use of PGD with HLA tissue typing to create an embryo that,when born, would be a compatible bone marrow donor for their three-year-old son. Their son was suffering from the rare disorder of Diamond-Blackfan anaemia which, should he not receive a bone marrow transplant, gave him a life expectancy of approximately 30 years.

Charlie’s parent wanting or even deciding to do this procedure is a choice of immortality. The parents would not be respecting the worth of this embryo, who is above price. This is a human being, who soon has the potential of being a baby. They are not valuing the embryo as a baby, child or human. They are just valuing the service he or she will provide for them. The procedure would allow Charlie’s parents to have a child that would be most able to donate blood-making cells to Charlie. This would probably save Charlie’s life. There is no dignity here, therefore the parents are acting immorally. The parents should treat that soon to be child as a person with dignity. Not just having the child as pleasure of saving another child’s life. They are treating it as an instrument. Charlie’s parents should recognize the embryo that may best be able to donate red blood cells, which would soon be a child, as a person capable of making reasonable choices. That egg is person and is does not lack the

The novel “My Sister’s Keeper” by Jodi Picoult explores the medical, legal, ethical and moral issues related to long term illness and discusses some of the bioethical issues around the experimental technique known as pre-implantation genetic diagnosis. The author presents many ethical dilemmas when a couple chooses to genetically engineer a baby to create a bone marrow match for their terminally ill daughter. That creation is Anna Fitzgerald, who is beginning to wonder about her place in the world and questions her on going donations in order to save her sister’s, Kate’s life. Anna feels that her existence is defined by her ability to save her sister. That type of

Brian and Sara Fitzgerald have two small children who seem healthy and happy. Suddenly their daughter Kate falls sick, and after many tests the doctors discover that she has acute promyelocytic leukemia, a rare and often fatal form of cancer; Kate is only three years old. When none of the family members are a match to be able to donate bone marrow a doctor suggest that they could conceive a genetically designed baby who would be a perfect match for Kate. In today’s society there are designer babies who have hair or eyes handpicked for them by their parents for a specific desired look. It seems there is no real harm in this, but conceiving a child to be a perfect match for the living sibling may cross some lines. The new child in question would be basically a spare, a savor sibling to the older child, used for the harvesting of whatever the other may need to stay alive. The doctor should never have even suggested this seeing as it infringes on basic human rights of a child who for many years will have no choice or control what will happen to their body. And in doing this there is no thought of the welfare and

| In this option Michelle’s parents are not presented with a lot of options. There would be a lot of stress involved with not being able to donate and trying to find a donor for Michelle. If she dies they are basically left with nothing but grief and a hefty hospital bill.