Deck 6: The Dilemma of Impaired Infants-PART A

Question 1

Who argues that infants are not persons?

A) Liao
B) Robertson
C) Sheehan
D) Tooley

Answer 1

D

Question 2

Who rejects the argument that the cost of treating newborns outweighs the benefits?

A) Liao
B) Robertson
C) Sheehan
D) Tooley

Answer 2

B

Question 3

Which moral view would deny that a lack of rational autonomy justifies depriving impaired infants of a chance to claim life, bodily integrity, and social affiliation?

A) Utilitarianism
B) Rawls's theory
C) Natural law
D) The capabilities approach

Answer 3

D

Question 4

Who defends a conservative natural law position?

A) Liao
B) Robertson
C) Sheehan
D) Tooley

Question 5

Which of the following are required by the Groningen Protocol for actively euthanizing impaired infants?

A) The diagnosis and prognosis must be certain.
B) The infant must be experiencing hopeless and unbearable suffering.
C) At least one independent physician must confirm that the conditions are met.
D) All of these choices

Question 6

Which moral view could hold that, although we have a prima facie duty to save the life of an impaired infant, our actual duty is to allow him to die?

A) Utilitarianism
B) Rawls's theory
C) Ross's theory
D) None of these choices

Question 7

Which moral view might support the position that the costs of saving an impaired infant would outweigh the benefits of doing this, and so the infant should not be saved?

A) Kantian ethics
B) Ross's theory
C) Utilitarianism
D) Rawls's theory

Question 8

What does "the Ashley Treatment" involve?

A) Surgery to remove the uterus
B) Surgery to remove breast buds
C) Hormone injections to attenuate growth
D) All of these choices

Question 9

Why do some neonatologists consider making extraordinary efforts to resuscitate low birth weight infants to be an unacceptable option?

A) The infants never survive.
B) Such efforts are very costly.
C) Such efforts are illegal.
D) The outcomes of such efforts are likely to be grim.

Question 10

Liao, Savulescu, and Sheehan argue that

A) Growth attenuation in disabled children is never morally permissible.
B) Growth attenuation in some disabled children is morally acceptable.
C) The surgical removal of breast buds in impaired children is morally permissible.
D) The surgical removal of the uterus in an impaired child is morally permissible.

Question 11

Who wrote of the legal concept of "wrongful life"?

A) Liao
B) Engelhardt
C) Tooley
D) Robertson

Question 12

Who argues that it is reasonable to speak of a duty not to treat an impaired infant under certain conditions?

A) Liao
B) Engelhardt
C) Tooley
D) Robertson

Question 13

Which moral view holds that even the most impaired newborn is a human person?

A) Utilitarianism
B) Ross's theory
C) Rawls's theory
D) Natural law

Question 14

Which moral view holds that it is morally wrong to will our own death, as this involves a self-defeating maxim?

A) Utilitarianism
B) Rawls's theory
C) Kantian ethics
D) Natural law

Question 15

Which of the following terms describes an impairment in a child that occurs during the development process and that is not caused by a defect in a gene or any genetic damage?

A) congenital error
B) genetic error
C) Hallopeau-Siemens disorder
D) Down syndrome