According to your worldview, what value does a human person have? How does your position affect your stance on controversial bioethical issues, such as abortion, designer babies, and stem cell research?

 

According to your worldview, what value does a human person have? 

According to worldview the value of a person can refer to their believes, practices.

Life is a gift from God. Adam became a living being by the breath of God and if God were to withdraw his breath from humans, they would perish Since life belongs to God, humans do not have absolute autonomy over their own lives but are stewards of the life given to them by God.

The value of human life is intrinsic, for it derives from God, who made human beings in his own image. Consequently, the person who takes the life of another will be held accountable and punishable by God through his human representatives.

The value and dignity of human life is derived from God the Creator and is rooted in the fact that all humans have been created in God's image. As stewards of the life God has given, we are to uphold its sanctity from conception to the grave. Ending someone's life in order to relieve suffering or inconvenience is not only unjustifiable, it violates God's clearly defined moral order. Suffering should bring us not to end life prematurely but to entrust ourselves more completely to our faithful God no matter .

How does your position affect your stance on controversial bioethical issues, such as abortion, designer babies, and stem cell research?

Stem cell research offers great promise for understanding basic mechanisms of human development and differentiation, as well as the hope for new treatments for diseases such as diabetes, spinal cord injury, Parkinson's disease, and myocardial infarction. However, human stem cell research also raises sharp ethical and political controversies. The derivation of pluripotent stem cell lines from oocytes and embryos is fraught with disputes about the onset of human personhood. The reprogramming of somatic cells to produce induced pluripotent stem cells avoids the ethical problems specific to embryonic stem cell research. In any research, however, difficult dilemmas arise regarding sensitive downstream research, consent to donate. These ethical and policy issues need to be discussed along with scientific challenges to ensure that stem cell research is carried out in an ethically appropriate manner.

Objections to creating embryos specifically for research.

Some people who object to SCNT believe that creating embryos with the intention of using them for research and destroying them in that process violates respect for nascent human life.

Objections to human reproduction using SCNT.

There are several compelling objections to using SCNT for human reproduction. First, because of errors during reprogramming of genetic material, cloned animal embryos fail to activate key embryonic genes, and newborn clones misexpress hundreds of genes. The risk of severe congenital defects would be prohibitively high in humans. Second, even if SCNT could be carried out safely in humans, some object that it violates human dignity and undermines traditional, fundamental moral, religious, and cultural values .

Fetal Stem Cells : Pluripotent stem cells can be derived from fetal tissue after abortion. However, use of fetal tissue is ethically controversial because it is associated with abortion, which many people object to.

Stem Cell Clinical Trials : Transplantation of cells derived from pluripotent stem cells offers the promise of effective new treatments. However, such transplantation also involves great uncertainty and the possibility of serious risks. Some stem cell therapies have been shown to be effective and safe, for example hematopoietic stem cell transplants for leukemia and epithelial stem cell-based treatments for burns and corneal disorders.

The main issue concerning abortion revolves around when life and personhood begin. Various views have been proposed:

(1) at conception;

(2) at implantation; and

(3) at birth.

Proponents of abortion also put forth other reasons for abortion, such as the choice of the mother, the case of rape, and the issue of quality of life. Yet surely a mother's "choice" does not include choosing to end another person's life any more than a murderer should be allowed to "choose" to end another's life. And in the case of rape, a heinous crime should not be compounded by adding to it another heinous crime . Regarding quality of life, it is certainly tragic for a baby to be born into poverty, or with physical deformity. Such suffering is real and painful and must be tenderly addressed. Yet the answer to a difficult life for an infant is not to deny life itself to the infant, who is created in God's . The next two decades, even for the prevention of genetic disease, let alone for designer babies. However, Green does see gene editing appearing on the menu eventually, and perhaps not just for medical therapies. "It is unavoidably in our future," he says, "and I believe that it will become one of the central foci of our social debates later in this century and in the century beyond." He warns that this might be accompanied by "serious errors and health problems as unknown genetic side effects in 'edited' children and populations begin to manifest themselves".

For now, though, if there's going to be anything even vaguely resembling the popular designer-baby fantasy, Embryos produced by IVF will be genetically screened - parts or all of their DNA will be read to deduce which gene variants they carry - and the prospective parents will be able to choose which embryos

There are thousands of mostly rare and nasty genetic diseases that can be pinpointed to a specific gene mutation. Most more common diseases or medical predispositions - for example, diabetes, heart disease or certain types of cancer - are linked to several or even many genes, can't be predicted with any certainty, and depend also on environmental factors such as diet.