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Applying Your Knowledge – CHAPTER 2
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Apply what you have learned from reading your textbook to these real-life situations.
Situation Questions
Answers
1
Imagine that you must counsel a
couple considering in vitro
fertilization using the wife’s ova
and sperm from an anonymous
man to overcome the husband’s
infertility. What medical risks
would you raise?
Premature delivery or even low birth weights, Multiple
births which may be complicated, Miscarriages, Birth
defects, ectopic pregnancy, ovarian cancer, and even
stress.
2
What ethical risks would you
raise?
Since the child is created out of her mother’s womb and
from an anonymous man, social problems might occur in
future when the child know that his father is not the
biological father.
3
Imagine that you are a woman
who is a carrier of fragile X
syndrome but who wants to
I would become pregnant. Whether a child is disabled or
not, he or she is still a child. Moreover, it is not always
