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Unit 8: Ethics

Lesson 6 

M2tto

2025-2026

What do we mean with animal rights?

list some ways in which humans use animals

Homework

3. they live longer, they can work well, they don't get hurt, they are Gods creation, because it's right to look after them, because they do so much for us. 

4. God's creation, they save lives, show compassion, not inflict pain, to reward them for what they do for us, that we get more from them, avoid cruelty

5. humans are superior, humans can use whatever is around them, medical advances need us to use animals, God gave humans dominion

Homework

6. 

Agree: we are the most important species on earth, with the greatest power / God gave us dominion. / As long as what we do helps human life improve, it is good.

Disagree: Animals are sentien beings, or should be shown care and respect. / Cruelty is always wrong, regardless of motive, so should never be allowed. / The statement is just about being selfish, which is characteristic humans dislike

Objectives

You will....

• know what we mean by the term medical ethics

• understand the concept of Designer Babies

• reflect on whether humans have gone to far with medicine

Medical ethics

page 234 - 235

Due to new technologies:

1. Transplant surgery

2. Medicine and the start of life (IVF)

the definition of death has been expanded to include brain death

conception meddling with God's creation

Is it okay to screen a pregnancy on genetic disorder?

Is it okay to abort a baby with a cleft palate?

What do you think a Designer Baby is?

Designer baby

A designer baby is what the media mean by a child that is produces by new technology. This technology allows us to screen and select embryos due to their genes.

Designer baby

Embryo 78 – male

• No serious early onset diseases, but a carrier for phenylketonuria (a metabolic malfunction that can cause behavioural and mental disorders. Carriers just have one copy of the gene, so don’t get the condition themselves).

• Higher than average risk of type 2 diabetes and colon cancer.

• Lower than average risk of asthma and autism.

• Dark eyes, light brown hair, male pattern baldness.

• 40% chance of coming in the top half in SAT tests.

There are 200 of these embryos to choose from, all made by in vitro fertilisation (IVF) from you and your partner’s eggs and sperm. So, over to you. Which will you choose?

Groups

Rotation posters

In your group:​

1. Write down an answers with explanation in 2 minutes.​

2. Hand it over to the other group.​

3. There are 6 posters.​

4. Speak English!​

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When does changing nature go too far?

Should parents be able to choose their baby's characteristics? Why or why not?

How could genetic technology make life better for future generations?

What limits should there be on genetic technology?

Why do people have different opinions about genetic technology?

Who should decide what counts as a disease or a disability?

Video

Questions:

1. The video names 3 technologies: explain in your own words what they involve

2. what are the advantages and disadvantages of Designer Babies?

Closure

Fill in the handout of 'Hopes and 'Fears'

Hand it in