To: Asclepius
what about if you were a deaf child and your parents got you a cochlear implant? That is medically altering the child for, it's true in a sense, the convenience of the parents and family.
10 posted on
11/01/2006 5:07:55 PM PST by
merry10
To: merry10
what about if you were a deaf child and your parents got you a cochlear implant? That is medically altering the child for, it's true in a sense, the convenience of the parents and family. So, you're saying there's no benefit for the child in a cochlear implant?
25 posted on
11/01/2006 5:21:30 PM PST by
BlessedBeGod
(Benedict XVI = Terminator IV)
To: merry10
what about if you were a deaf child and your parents got you a cochlear implant? That is medically altering the child for, it's true in a sense, the convenience of the parents and family.
No. Fixing what's broken is in no way morally equivallent to breaking what's fine.
39 posted on
11/01/2006 5:42:09 PM PST by
Zechariah_8_13
(Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
To: merry10
"what about if you were a deaf child and your parents got you a cochlear implant? That is medically altering the child for, it's true in a sense, the convenience of the parents and family." Deafness is an impaired function. The medical arts are properly used to restore normal function; heal injury; cure disease.
In the case under discussion, medical techniques are bring used to impair normal functions, namely growth and maturation: not as a side-effect, but as the intended result. That is not ethical. It is the opposite of the purpose of medicine, which is to achieve health and healing.
In short, there's all the difference in the world between repairing abnormality, and deliberately pursuing abnormality.
41 posted on
11/01/2006 5:43:50 PM PST by
Mrs. Don-o
("The law is written on their hearts, their consciences also bearing witness." Romans 2:15)
To: merry10
Those two situations aren't even in the same league. What's wrong with you?
61 posted on
11/01/2006 6:37:17 PM PST by
ukie55
To: merry10
And the child in your example. Most deaf people would want to hear if they could. It's not the same.
116 posted on
11/02/2006 7:15:56 AM PST by
RockinRight
(Maintaining a Republican majority is MORE IMPORTANT than your temper tantrum.)
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