Deck 4: Reproductive Control-PART A

Question 1

Leon Kass offers which of the following as reasons for which we should feel repulsion at the idea of human cloning?

A) Cloning would distort the cloned individual's sense of social identity.
B) Cloning would turn procreation into a manufacturing process and turn children into commodities.
C) Cloning would encourage parents to treat children as property.
D) All of these choices

Answer 1

D

Question 2

What explains the United States' tolerance of compensated surrogacy?

A) The excellent healthcare that is available there
B) The greater number of gay couples who want children
C) Its free market ethos
D) All of these choices

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following terms describes an elimination procedure used in cases where there are multiple fetuses and some of the fetuses are destroyed and removed with the intent of increasing the chances that the remaining fetuses will develop into healthy babies?

A) selective reduction
B) constructive abortion
C) genetic abortion
D) in vitro fertilization

Answer 3

A

Question 4

According to the Congregation for the Doctrine of Faith, which of the following does the Catholic Church believe to be morally illegitimate?

A) Attempts to manipulate genetic materials for the purpose of sex selection.
B) Artificial insemination involving unmarried individuals.
C) Destroying human embryos produced by in vitro techniques for the purposes of either research or procreation.
D) All of these choices.

Question 5

What is not an example of "third-party reproduction"?

A) Surrogacy arrangements
B) Egg donation
C) Sperm donation
D) IVF with no donated tissue

Question 6

What is pharming?

A) the use of animal cloning to produce drugs
B) the use of animal cloning to produce higher-yield food animals
C) a type of gene therapy
D) the cloning technique used to produce Dolly

Question 7

Which of the following are a potential ethical and social difficulty surrounding reproductive technologies?

A) incest potential and eugenics
B) eugenics and sex selection
C) sex selection and incest potential
D) incest potential, eugenics, and sex selection

Question 8

Which of the following is a characteristic of the "new breed" of single mothers?

A) They have deliberately (rather than accidentally) become pregnant.
B) They are in their late-twenties to mid-thirties.
C) They occupy the upper tiers of income, education, and occupation.
D) All of these choices

Question 9

A gestational surrogate is

A) another term for an egg donor.
B) a "host mother" who is implanted with an embryo from another woman.
C) another term for a sperm donor.
D) a woman who has had one of her own eggs removed, fertilized and then implanted back into her.

Question 10

A multiple pregnancy does what to the risk of miscarriage?

A) It increases it.
B) It decreases it.
C) It does not change it.
D) No one really knows.

Question 11

The long-term risks of egg donation are

A) easy to establish because we have significant data on the effects of hormone treatment.
B) easy to establish because we only permitted donation after extensive scientific study.
C) difficult to establish because egg donors are not tracked in a central registry.
D) difficult to establish because companies hide the adverse effects that they discover.

Question 12

Which of the following terms is used to describe the argument that "producing deficits [in offspring] wouldn't necessarily be wrong because, except in extreme cases, it's better to be alive than not exist"?

A) the "interest in existing" argument
B) the "open question" argument
C) the "argument from design"
D) the "open future" argument

Question 13

What factor or factors might undermine egg donors' informed consent?

A) age
B) relative inexperience
C) the need for money
D) all of these choices

Question 14

From 1995 to 2005, the number of women taking fertility drugs almost tripled (from 1 million to 3 million women) What happened to the incidence of multiple births during the last thirty years including the period from 1995 to 2005?

A) It has remained the same.
B) It has quadrupled.
C) It has doubled.
D) It has actually decreased by half.

Question 15

What objections have critics leveled against ART?

A) That there is no right to have a biological child and so rather than using ART persons should instead adopt.
B) ART is extremely expensive.
C) Intended parents are often not properly informed about their chances of success.
D) All of these choices

Question 16

Dolce and Gabbana argue that surrogacy is

A) exploitative.
B) unnatural.
C) dangerous.
D) all of these choices.