Xenotransplantation Ethical Dilemma

The positive impact of xenotransplantation is that it can save countless lives, even though there are many risks involved, as time goes on scientists will develop safe methods posing less risks. Another positive impact it can pose on society is that it may decrease the demand of organs in the black market, the rate in which demand for organ increases it increases in the black market as well. It is reported that a plethora of criminal organizations take advantage of this and kill to acquire organs and sell to people at higher prices. Legalizing xenotransplantation can decrease the demand for organs, in turn decrease the uses of black market

Between the arguments of animals being experimented on and animals being people who are our pets; there is a major controversial conflict about it. In the article, “Eating Animals the Nice Way.” by Jeff McMahan, he states, “Many people are opposed to factory farming because of the terrible suffering it inflicts on animals, yet see no

Imagine being on a national organ transplant list and have been given a choice. Do you want a human organ or an animal organ? Yes, Xenotransplantation is a large medical breakthrough, but it come with a tremendous amount of risk involved. Animal organs are not meant to be in a humans body. Therefore, human organs should be used for people on the donation list instead of Xenotransplantation. Xenotransplantation should not be tolerated because Organ Rejection, Ethics and Survival Rates.

Savulescu believes “the medical and scientific benefits of research into therapeutic cloning are so great that this research is morally required” (Savulescu) in order to avoid “genetic malformation, malignancy and reduced longevity” (Savulescu). From what is gathered in the article, there is an overwhelming argument against cloning in the present due to how risky it is due to “genetic malformation, malignancy and reduced longevity”

In recent years, there has been and still is much debate over stem cell cloning and its applications. The topics of embryonic stem cells and human cloning are very large and very controversial issues that have many facets to them, and these also tend to be the issues that overshadow the smaller, less heated topics of therapeutic cloning and animal reproductive cloning. Both therapeutic cloning with its hypothetical use in medicine and animal reproductive cloning with its potential to revive extinct species are gallant undertakings, yet both sides also have their share of fallacies and drawbacks.

Wanted embryos were valuable for their parents. Respect for the moral value regarding the feelings of the parents. Individual’s cells were duplicated it was another issue concern on cloning embryonic stem cell. This was a therapeutic cloning and begins using same procedure as reproductive cloning. If the cell in the therapy usage embryonic there were impediment of possible negation, having cell from different

The Human Cloning Foundation. "The Medical Benefits of Human Cloning." Cloning, edited by Sylvia Engdahl, Greenhaven Press, 2006. Contemporary Issues Companion. Opposing Viewpoints in Context.

James Joyce once said that “mistakes are the portals of discovery.” However, when it comes to the field of genetic engineering, specifically cloning, mistakes, or even discoveries, could turn out to be disastrous. Victor Frankenstein found this out when, in the book Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, he discovers the secrets to creating life which, some might say, led to a horrifying 8 foot tall creature. Nonetheless, cloning has become a lucrative field in the past twenty years since the first sheep was cloned. The process of cloning is essentially extracting tissue from an organism and growing the tissue within a laboratory by means of asexual reproduction. Bioethics have limited cloning to just animals such as a sheep as well as a monkey, but as technology has advanced, so it seems that humans are closer to being able to clone a human. Genetic engineering, specifically cloning, denies the dignity of human life because it crosses the ethical borders in which mankind is attempting to surpass God as a creator.

There is a large number of people who would disagree with the statement that “Animal testing is very beneficial” but what these people don’t realize is that without animal testing we wouldn’t have all the medical advancements that we have today. Animal testing has made a huge impact on our daily lives and will affect our future to come.

Farmers and ranchers have been manipulating genes for plants and animals well before gene sequencing and molecular techniques were practiced. The size of a grapefruit and coloring on cattle may be attributed to the former. With new knowledge about animal and plant genomes, scientists can now delicately screen, edit, and splice genes for varying reasons. This paper intends to explore some of the more common techniques in genetic engineering (prenatal screening, gene manipulation, and cloning) for humans and the ethical issues surrounding them.

The laboratories in which rabbits and other animals are tested, the rabbits are held in small cages by themselves for weeks and months. There is no sunlight and the rabbits are not allowed to go outside. Rabbit 32 which is one of the 170,000 rabbits who will be killed this year due to animal testing, is locked up by himself waiting for people to do test on him. Some of the tests that Rabbit 32 has endured is being fed chemicals to see how it affects the rabbit. Another test that the scientist do is, a device to hold the rabbit down so it cannot move and the scientist drip chemicals into the eyes and onto the skin and wait to see how the rabbits react to the chemical. The scientist leaves the chemicals up for weeks on the without painkillers, while the rabbits bleed and eyes swell up. Most likely after

According to World Journal of Transplantation, 2015, “transplantation ethics is the philosophy that incorporates systematizing, defending, and advocating concepts of right and wrong related to organ donation and allocation.”1 Initially, the supervision of transplant activities and centers in Germany was based on a mutual trust and interdependence. That changed after several scandals shook the transplant community. In Germany, the Deutsche Stiftung Organtransplantation [(DSO)German Organ Transplantation Foundation] is responsible for the coordination of organ donation.2 The agency, which was renamed after the reunification of East and West Germany, was assigned the role of organ procurement in 1997 after the enactment of the German transplant

Organ transplant has been hailed as one of the greatest achievements of modern surgery. There are however, many ethical difficulties and argument associated with this procedure. factor that needs to be considered was the cost of organ transplant, as all organ transplants are very expensive, as it includes the surgical process and later on, the continuing treatment process. Would this mean that a rich person would get a new organ and a poor person refused .Therefore they Setting up a National Transplant Fund, whose role was to help and fund organ transplant of those in need, reduced this problem.

The first ethical issue was killing the baboon to proceed with the transplant. The second concern raised was having angered animal’s rights activists. People were upset and furious because of the death of the baboon. The Third ethical issue was the transplanted baboon bone into Getty. The fourth concern was the radiation and drug therapy before transplantations.

Cloning at the gene level is acceptable and is done extensively in research areas. However, therapeutic cloning and reproductive cloning raises skepticism and debate both in the general society and the scientific community. Among the argument raised is the possibility of cloning human beings; whether the individuals derived are seen as a complete human with the whole set of human rights attached to them.