Seminar prompt: Family and Reproductive Technology

 

Do you have moral obligations towards other family members? Eg Do children have a moral obligation to look after their parents in their old age?

Is it OK to be partial towards you family (i.e. give them jobs, places at University?)

Cloning

Is the cloning of (non-human) animals objectionable?

Is the cloning of humans objectionable?

Surrogacy

Is it objectionable for someone to be paid to bear a baby for someone else? (Roy and Hayley, Tracy)

Is non-commercial surrogacy a different case?

GROUP A

List all the arguments you can think of in favour of controlling (through the law)
(a) surrogacy and
(b) cloning
(i) of humans
(ii) of non-human animals


GROUP B

List all the arguments you can think of against all kinds of legal interference with
(a) surrogacy
and
(b) cloning
(i) of humans
(ii) of non-human animals

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