The Ethical Options In Transplanting Fetal Tissue

Fetal tissue transplants have now been successful in primates, raising the possibility of treatment for Parkinson's disease and other chronic illnesses. Whether or not abortion is morally justified, use of human fetal tissue for research or therapy is justified in certain circumstances. The rat...

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Published in:The Hastings Center report 1987-02, Vol.17 (1), p.9-15
Main Authors: Mahowald, Nary B., Silver, Jerry, Ratcheson, Robert A.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aborted Fetus
Abortion
Abortion, Induced
Beneficence
Bioethics
Brain tissue transplantation
Cadaver
Cadavers
Ethical Analysis
Ethics
Ethics, Medical
Federal Government
Female
Fetal tissue transplantation
Fetus
Government Regulation
Humans
Intention
Medical ethics
Medical Research
Medical treatment
Moral Obligations
Nerve Tissue - transplantation
Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation
Organ donation
Parental Consent
Parkinson disease
Personal Autonomy
Pregnancy
Pregnant Women
Therapeutic Human Experimentation
Tissue and Organ Procurement
Tissue Donors
Tissue transplantation
Transplantation
Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc
United States
Wedge Argument
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Summary:Fetal tissue transplants have now been successful in primates, raising the possibility of treatment for Parkinson's disease and other chronic illnesses. Whether or not abortion is morally justified, use of human fetal tissue for research or therapy is justified in certain circumstances. The rationale, both for permitting transplantation of fetal tissue and for limitations in exercising the technology, is based on the same set of ethical principles that supported restrictive legislation in the past: respect for autonomy and a balancing of harms and benefits that gives priority to those most affected.
ISSN:0093-0334
1552-146X
DOI:10.2307/3562434