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Rawan Abdelaziz

about 1 hour ago

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.

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Noora Aldosery

about 1 hour ago

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

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Ezekiel Kumai

about 1 hour ago

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.

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hesham hassan

about 2 hours ago

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

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Sunep Jamir

about 2 hours ago

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

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

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Jordon Hamilton-Green

about 2 hours ago

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.

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Cilicia Stokes

about 4 hours ago

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.

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Jacob Timpy

about 4 hours ago

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

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Adore Nique

about 4 hours ago

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

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Mishal Ahmed

about 6 hours ago

Bonnie Steinbock argues that

A) selecting against disability implies a devaluation of disabled people.
B) it is reasonable for parents to wish to prevent disability in their children.
C) selecting for disability if morally permissible.
D) selection of persons should never occur.

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Kushagra Saxena

about 6 hours ago

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

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hamza luqman

about 6 hours ago

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

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Maura Martinez

about 7 hours ago

Which of the following does Jeff McMahan list as a common objection to prenatal or preimplantation screening for disabilities?

A) The practices are discriminatory
B) The practices are harmful to the disabled as both a group and as an individual
C) Reduction in the number of disabled persons would have a detrimental impact on human diversity
D) All of these choices

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Priyanka Thapa

about 7 hours ago

Dena Davis believes that genetic counselors should not help parents conceive a child with a genetic disorder for which of the following reasons?

A) Genetic counseling is the same as human cloning.
B) She believes that abortion is always wrong.
C) It violates the child's right to an open future.
D) All of these choices

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Pankaja Pawar

about 8 hours ago

Dena Davis focuses on which of the following genetic disorders in formulating her argument?

A) deafness
B) Huntington's
C) Achondroplastic Dwarf syndrome
D) Down syndrome

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Mohanad Rayyan

about 8 hours ago

Kantian ethics would be likely to view forced sterilization as

A) morally acceptable if performed for the good of society.
B) morally acceptable if performed for the good of the individual sterilized.
C) an affront to the autonomy of individuals.
D) an affront to the well-being of the fetus.

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Rokia Porter

about 8 hours ago

The Catholic Church would approve of using which of the following in research?

A) adult stem cells
B) embryonic stem cells
C) both of these sources
D) no sources at all

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Keana Dowless

about 9 hours ago

Which of the following is or are true of gene therapy?

A) Gene therapy research has proved disappointing and researchers are shifting to other means of treating genetic disorders.
B) It is now routinely used to cure people with sickle-cell disease and leukemia.
C) It provides considerable promise for people suffering a variety of genetic disorders.
D) All of these choices

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surya dadhwal

about 10 hours ago

GINA (Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act) prohibits which of the following?

A) It prohibits employers from requiring genetic tests as a condition of being hired.
B) It prohibits health insurers from disclosing genetic information about an individual.
C) It prohibits employers from buying genetic information about an employee.
D) All of these choices

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Julie Ellsworth

about 10 hours ago

George Annas believes that, historically,

A) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could justify the view that abortion is permissible because the fetus would be better off dead.
B) prenatal screening has been used to find conditions that could be rectified by genetic therapies.
C) prenatal screening has been used as a substitute for elective abortion.
D) all of these choices.