BME 80G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Chimp Haven, Homo Sapiens, Moral Rights
23 Sep 2018
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Moral status: moral consideration: this entity"s well being deserves consideration when making decisions that affect it, moral rights: we have specific duties toward this entity. Ex: embryos could be argued to have all for of them: you could consistently believe that an embryo has full personhood and believe either: The embryo has an absolute right to not be destroyed. Hercules and leo: they deserve partial personhood because they do not have the ability for abstract thought , they should be sent to chimp haven because the only other option is dying. This gnrh agonist is administered in longer, less frequent doses. It desensitizes the pituitary gland because it removes the receptors. The agonist still creates the same signal cascade effect but since it prolonged, it is not in pulse: negative feedback loop. This process downregulates, less receptors, less product, less puberty. They don"t affect fertility, the hormone supplements are the ones that affect fertility.
