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Scenario 7 ?My husband and I have talked over the matter in great detail,? Marge Gower said. ?We don?t care about the sex of the child, but we know exactly the kinds of features we want.? ?Mrs. Gower,? Dr. Louise Singh said, ?you?ve got to understand that we?re not running a mail-order-catalog business for babies.? ?I?m not trying to order a baby. I just want to tell you what I?m looking for in a sperm donor. I want somebody who is at least six feet tall, muscular-not fat-has light-colored hair and is very good looking. Also, I want some proof that he has a good sense of humor and is intelligent. He has to have at least a college degree. I?ll leave all the rest to you. I mean, things about health.? ?Thank you,? said Dr. Singh. ?But I really don?t think I can go along with that.? ?Why not? If I were going to have a child in the usual way and I were deliberately going to get pregnant, I would certainly choose somebody like I described.? ?But you aren?t doing it in the usual way. You?re going to be using donor semen.? ?But who is going to choose the donor? You are, aren?t you?? ?I?ll select somebody from our list of applicants who resembles you and your husband in a general way.? ?I don?t see why you should have that kind of power,? Mrs. Gower said. ?It?s going to be my baby so I think I have the right to say what the father should be like.? ?That?s against Reproductive Medicine?s policy.? ?Well, that?s too bad. Just tell me who to talk to to get the policy changed. I?m going to have a baby like my husband and I want. As long as I have to have artificial insemination, I want to get the most out of it.? Is it morally correct to permit women to select the sperm and egg source for their child based on features? How would someone respond to this question using the ethical principles of Rawlsian

Answer 1

Rawlsian generate two principles of justice.

1)each person is to have an equal right to the most extensive total system of equal basic liberties compatible with the just principle and compatible with a similar system of liberty for all.

2)social and economic inequalities are to be arranged,do that they are both

a)to the greatest benefit of the least advantaged,consistent with the just saving principle,and

b) attached to offices and positions open to all under conditions of fair equality of opportunity.

As its first principle, Rawlsian principle state that, every person have the right to do anything unless it do not violate the rights of others.According to this, artificial insemination have no ethical issues.But ,in terms of moral and religious principles,we cannot accept artificial insemination.

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