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This question is to the parents of teenagers. My husband and I started a Catholic organization at our medical school 
. We have been invited to do a medical ethical discussion at a local Catholic high school. I was hoping that you could look at the web sites and let me know which scenerious you would want your teenage children discussing. Our plan is for the children to think for themselves with our members leading the discussion and on occasion asking questions. These teenagers will be in the 11th grade and highly intelligent. Your advice would be very welcome.
scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/cirone/medical-ethics.html
scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm
prs-ltsn.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/case_studies/index.html
These are the few that I am looking at:
Case One:
A woman was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (the same
disease that Stephen Hawking has) 5 years ago. This is a condition that destroys motor nerves, making control of movement impossible, while the mind is virtually unaffected. People with motor neurone disease normally die within 4 years of diagnosis from suffocation due to the inability of the inspiratory muscles to contract. The woman’s condition has steadily declined. She is not expected to live through the month, and is worried about the pain that she will face in her final hours. She asks her doctor to give her diamorphine for pain if she begins to suffocate or choke. This will lessen her pain, but it will also hasten her death. About a week later, she falls very ill, and is having trouble breathing.
Case 2
A woman, after a bout with uterine cancer had a hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus). Before, its removal, however, she had several eggs removed for possible fertilization in the future. Now married, the woman wishes to have a child with her husband. Obviously she cannot bear the child herself, so the couple utilizes a company to find a surrogate mother for them. The husband’s sperm is used to fertilize one of the wife’s eggs, and is implanted in the surrogate mother. The couple pays all of the woman’s pregnancy-related expenses and an extra $18,000 as compensation for her surrogacy. After all expenses are taken into account the couple pays the woman approximately $31,000 and the agency approximately $5,000. Though the surrogate passed stringent mental testing to ensure she was competent to carry another couple’s child, after carrying the pregnancy to term, the surrogate says that she has become too attached to “her” child to give it up to the couple. A legal battle ensues.
. We have been invited to do a medical ethical discussion at a local Catholic high school. I was hoping that you could look at the web sites and let me know which scenerious you would want your teenage children discussing. Our plan is for the children to think for themselves with our members leading the discussion and on occasion asking questions. These teenagers will be in the 11th grade and highly intelligent. Your advice would be very welcome.scu.edu/ethics/publications/submitted/cirone/medical-ethics.html
scu.edu/ethics/practicing/focusareas/cases.cfm
prs-ltsn.leeds.ac.uk/ethics/case_studies/index.html
These are the few that I am looking at:
Case One:
A woman was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (the same
disease that Stephen Hawking has) 5 years ago. This is a condition that destroys motor nerves, making control of movement impossible, while the mind is virtually unaffected. People with motor neurone disease normally die within 4 years of diagnosis from suffocation due to the inability of the inspiratory muscles to contract. The woman’s condition has steadily declined. She is not expected to live through the month, and is worried about the pain that she will face in her final hours. She asks her doctor to give her diamorphine for pain if she begins to suffocate or choke. This will lessen her pain, but it will also hasten her death. About a week later, she falls very ill, and is having trouble breathing.
Case 2
A woman, after a bout with uterine cancer had a hysterectomy (surgical removal of the uterus). Before, its removal, however, she had several eggs removed for possible fertilization in the future. Now married, the woman wishes to have a child with her husband. Obviously she cannot bear the child herself, so the couple utilizes a company to find a surrogate mother for them. The husband’s sperm is used to fertilize one of the wife’s eggs, and is implanted in the surrogate mother. The couple pays all of the woman’s pregnancy-related expenses and an extra $18,000 as compensation for her surrogacy. After all expenses are taken into account the couple pays the woman approximately $31,000 and the agency approximately $5,000. Though the surrogate passed stringent mental testing to ensure she was competent to carry another couple’s child, after carrying the pregnancy to term, the surrogate says that she has become too attached to “her” child to give it up to the couple. A legal battle ensues.
