Deck 6: The Dilemma of Impaired Infants

Question 1

Congenital impairments are inherited and can be passed on.

Answer 1

False

Question 2

Ethical theories rooted in identity politics draw a bright line between persons and non-persons.

Answer 2

False

Question 3

Engelhardt opposes the passive euthanization of children.

Answer 3

False

Question 4

Tristram Engelhardt Jr. believes that we may actually have a moral duty not to treat impaired newborns if such treatment would only prolong a painful life or lead to a painful deat.

Question 5

Dr. Eduard Verhagen supports a policy allowing physicians to euthanize infants under certain condition such as when suffering from hopeless and severe impairments leading only to a life of "agonizing pain."

Question 6

There is currently a cure for Down syndrome.

Question 7

The natural law position holds that only fully functioning newborns can be considered human persons.

Question 8

Kant believed that it would be wrong to will our own deaths.

Question 9

Liao, Salvulescu, and Sheehan argue that the surgical removal of the uterus in a case like Ashley's is not justified.

Question 10

Utilitarians do not consider killing impaired infants to be wrong in itself.

Question 11

ohn Robertson believes that the high personal and societal costs of treating impaired newborns are sufficient reason to withhold treatment from such newborns.

Question 12

In "The 'Ashley Treatment'", Ashley's parent's claim that they had Ashley's uterus removed to prevent menstrual cramps.

Question 13

Amniocentesis carries no risks and is considered a routine procedure.

Question 14

Engelhardt believes that children are not persons in the full sense.

Question 15

Engelhardt believes that there could be a duty not to treat an impaired infant.