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Tabita Vladia

1 minute ago

In what ways does Plan B work to prevent pregnancy?

A) It delays or prevents ovulation.
B) It inhibits fertilization.
C) It prevents a fertilized egg from implanting itself in the uterine wall
D) It delays or prevents ovulation or inhibits fertilization.

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Marcello Cappuccio

2 minutes ago

Which of the following terms describes an abortion that is required to save the life, or is essential to preserving the health, of the mother?

A) therapeutic abortion
B) voluntary abortion
C) selective reduction
D) partial birth abortion

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Christian Stephens-Baker

11 minutes ago

The Roe v. Wade decision was based on the constitutionally protected right to:

A) abortion.
B) privacy.
C) liberty.
D) life.

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Farah Shini

about 2 hours ago

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

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Mackenzie Bennett

about 2 hours ago

The Roe v. Wade decision had which of the following effects?

A) It held that during the first trimester, states cannot restrict a woman's right to an abortion.
B) It held that during the second trimester, states may place restrictions on abortion to protect the health and safety of the pregnant women.
C) It held that during the third trimester, states may restrict abortion but only in ways that still preserve the health and safety of the pregnant woman.
D) All of these choices

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sephora pierre

about 2 hours ago

When did the U.S. Supreme Court issue its Roe v. Wade decision decriminalizing abortion?

A) 1973
B) 1962
C) 1984
D) 1959

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Kayla Aiyana

about 3 hours ago

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

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Justin Smith

about 3 hours ago

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

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Jackson Leistikow

about 3 hours ago

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.

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Rawan Abdelaziz

about 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 5 hours 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 6 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 6 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 6 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 8 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 8 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 8 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 10 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 10 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