Ethical issues
What Ethical issues means in Combined Science GCSE, as defined for AQA.
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Reference: AQA
These include the moral status of the embryo, the right to life, disability rights, parental choice and concerns about designer babies.
Concerns raised by the use of embryonic stem cells because obtaining them involves destroying an early embryo.
Concerns raised by these technologies, including the fate of unused embryos and the risk of multiple births.
Topics that use Ethical issues
- Inherited disorders (AQA GCSE)
- Stem cells (AQA GCSE)
- The use of hormones to treat infertility (HT only) (AQA GCSE)
Related terms
- Adult cell cloning
- Adult stem cells and potency
- carriers
- Cloning
- Comparison of stem cell sources
- Diabetes
- Differentiation
- Economic issues
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