Clinics and baby's
Maybe something interesting for the MOQ, a case about morals, values and
ethics.
(taken from real live)
Maybe the moq-members could help clearing things up
The case
Picture a fertility clinic and the following case:
A lesbian woman, blind, has a girlfriend with whome she's been living quite
happily for some years. Together they take care for two children, the
children were given birth to by her girlfriend.
The woman wants to give birth to an (biologically) own child, but her
blindness is caused by a hereditary disease which runs through her family.
There's a 42% chance that she will give birth to a child who will also carry
this disease and become blind when he/she is growing up.
The doctors of the clinic refuse to help this woman with donor insemination
because of the high risk of blindness for the child.
She is very angry and is sueing the clinic for discrimination of disabled
people.
Some questions regarding the case:
Do the doctors discriminate? And if so, is it moral to do so?
What's the moral in this case or simply the best thing to do?
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