Bioethics: Where do you stand? (5/18-5/22)
This is your class work for the week of May 18-22, 2009.
Remember, you are to WORK ALONE on this assignment. Even if you share a computer, you do NOT share answers! Also, NO PRINTING will be allowed on this assignment. Do ALL of your work from the computer and your OWN paper.
Step One: Where do you stand?
- Review the worksheet found here. Answer the opinion questions on your own paper.
- Then answer these questions:
a) How quickly were you able to make up your mind about these issues?
b) Did you use facts or emotions to make your decisions?
c) Did you take a case-by-case approach to decision-making, or were all of your decisions made according to your personal morals?
Step Two: Read the Article
- Read the New York Times article here.
- Answer the following review questions:
d. Identify three different points of view portrayed by the article. What is at stake for each? Are there any viewpoints on this issue that are not represented and what are they?
e. What are the possible solutions to the Best’s problem? Which solution do you think you would choose if you were in their place and why?
f. In your opinion, what changes in practice or regulation, if any, should be made to the current system used by fertility clinics in the United States?
g. After reading the article, have your views or opinions about Scenario 1 in the initial activity changed? How so and why?
Step Three: Explore
- Look at the graphic organizer found here, and make one like it on your own paper.
- Use one of the following articles to help you fill in the organizer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/31/opinion/31kristof.html
http://www.nytimes.com/learning/teachers/archival/19970628euthanasia.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/26/business/worldbusiness/26corn.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/20/science/20tier.html
http://newoldage.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/24/rationing-health-care-part-2
Turn in all work by the end of the week.
Optional Extra Credit Assignment:
If you attended the guest speaker presentation on Monday, you may do the following for extra credit. You must complete ALL steps or you will NOT get your extra credit.
1. List 3 things you learned from the presentation.
2. List your plan for life after high school.
3. How will you achieve that plan? What money will you need, skills/training, etc.?
4. Go to one of the scholarship web sites listed below, and find a scholarship you qualify for. List the name of that scholarship and the dolar amount.
- Fastweb
- College Scholarships
- Find Aid
5. Turn in your extra credit work along with the rest of your class work by Friday, 5/22/09.
