‘Is it ethically acceptable for this couple to choose to implant a ‘deaf’ embryo?’

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In my ,opinion I agree with the law which states that an embryo
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created through IVF shouldn’
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be implanted if they are identified as having any gene, chromosomal or mitochondrial abnormality. Linking it to the above case study, embryos recognised as having hearing abnormality shouldn’
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be implanted. Who decides what a "serious" physical or mental disability is? There are some things on which we could probably all agree. If the fetus won'
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be able to survive to birth, that would probably count as would a disability that would cause the baby a great deal of pain and
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probable death within the
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year of life.
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, once we get into other sorts of issues,
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decision may not be so easy for 100% of prospective parents and government officials to agree on. I do agree with some of the views and the opinions of the deaf parents that even deaf
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have their culture and identity and I strongly agree
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the fact that the deaf
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equal to the listeners.
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the argument that
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promotes deaf
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as being less valuable than hearing
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is strong, I don'
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believe parents should have the right to choose to give a child a feature
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could potentially set them back when there are other options available. By selecting the type of qualities, we want in the embryo we are supporting the idea of designer babies, except selecting babies with certain eye
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, we are selecting certain
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. One should always aim for the least harm possible. By applying
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principle in the situation, the best course of action would be to, if possible, prevent the child from being deaf.
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is because being deaf would cause a lot of
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inconvenience
to the child. But that doesn’
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mean that the deaf
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less valuable than those who are not. To conclude,
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argument is a difficult one because on one
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I think, If I was deaf I would not want to be destroyed just because I was deaf. it could be said that
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in itself is discrimination against deaf
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. But
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the other hand, would one knowingly bringing a deaf person into
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world be ethically right, to that I would answer no because it would put them at a disadvantage to other children.
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, would deaf
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argue that they aren'
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at a disadvantage, but
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again would they know the true answer as they don'
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know what it's like to be fully hearing
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If I was to have a solution to
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, I would say that screening an embryo shouldn'
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happen,
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erases the thought of choosing a baby and it’s just a situation of ' you get what you get'

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