Medical Ethics

1. Reason

   Annotations:

   • No money Health of mother at risk Too young Rape 
2. The termination of a pregnancy before the baby is ready to be born.
3. Wrong
   1. Brings bad karma if a person aborts , giving a worse reincarnation
   2. All life is sacred
4. Right
   1. Not right to bring a child into poverty
   2. Only if the baby has severe abnormality s, it is a risk to the mother or if it is a result of rape

1. IVF - test tube baby
   1. No adultery - husband and wife cells
2. AIH - artificial insemination by husband
   1. No spare embryos
   2. No adultery
3. AID - artificial insemination by donor
   1. Adultery - bringing third person into relationship
4. Egg or sperm storing
   1. Interfering with nature

1. Make an artificial copy of.
2. Humans
   1. May be misused to create the perfect race
   2. Could cure genetic diseases
3. Plants
   1. May not have atman - cannot reincarnate
   2. Pest resistant food - produce more to help the poor
4. Overall
   1. In favour of science for the betterment of humanity
   2. Started when cloning wasn't around so there aren't many views on it

Annotations:

• Active - Helps patient die (against the law) Voluntary - someone asks Passive - médecine stopped so nothing is done to keep them alive or kill them Involuntary - when someone can't ask e.g if they are in a coma  Double effefct - given pain relief that will shorten their life Palliative care - hospices and support for the dying and their family/friends 

1. Good death.
2. For/Acceptable
   1. Preventing death - against ahimsa
   2. God has already taken the life
   3. Admired as a sign of great holiness - world is not as important as it appears
3. Against
   1. All life is sacred
   2. Laws of Manu - murder is wrong
   3. Suffering is due to bad luck

1. For
   1. Only if essential to human well being
   2. Saves lives
   3. Only for science - not shampoo etc.
2. Against
   1. Vahanas were animal transport , so animals are respected (cow)
   2. Animals can't speak - so they can't tell us when they are suffering
   3. Will become hunted in future life
   4. Cannot reply on results as humans are different to animals