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In article <CpyAuy.BLH@hippo.ru.ac.za> g92m2571@hippo.ru.ac.za (John A. McKane) writes:
>From: g92m2571@hippo.ru.ac.za (John A. McKane)
>Subject: Bioethics Questionnaire: READ THIS PLEASE!!
>Date: Tue, 17 May 1994 14:28:09 GMT
>
>Research Essay Questionnaire.
>
>I am a Third Year Systematic Theology student and in the process of
>researching Bioethics in this new Bionic Age we find ourselves in. I would
>appreciate it if you could please answer these simple questions as honestly
>as possible.
>
>Occupation:    _____________________________Academic Drone
>
>
>(1)  If it were possible, would you want to take a genetic test telling you
>     which diseases you are likely to suffer from later in life?
>
>     __________ Obviously
>
>(2)  If any defects were found, and they could be fixed, would you want
>     that?
>
>     __________ Obviously
>
>
>(3)  If you or your spouse were pregnant, would you want the unborn child
>     tested for genetic defects?
>
>     __________ Obviously
>
>(4)  If any defects were found, and they could be fixed, would you want
>     that?
>
>     __________ Obviously
>
>
>(5)  Do you think human cloning is a good thing?
>
>     __________ Define "good thing" and "cloning"!!  (Question is 
impossible to answer in any valid way.)

>(6)  Would you like to have been a clone?
>
>     __________ Of what? Of whom?  A really poorly worded question!!

>
>
>(7)  Do you think medical research on cloning should be allowed to continue?
>
>     __________  Define "allowed"!  It's (research) being done and will 
>		  continue I imagine -- omnipotent grantors of "permission"
>		  are, for all practical purposes, entirely speculative!
>(8)  If you conceived a child, might you be interested in cloning the
>     embryo?
>
>     __________  Yeah, might be "interesting", but probably not worth the
>		  bother!
>
>(9)  Do you think human cloning is morally/ethically wrong?
>
>     __________  Looking at the world today, maybe it's better to ask 
>		  whether its morally wrong NOT to!!
>
>(10) Do you think it goes against God's will?
>
>     __________  Who knows what God's will is?  Certainly nobody in 
>		  the clergy can agree on this! (Although there was one 
>		  member of the "industry" who claimed on the radio the
>		  other day that "Nothing happens in this world that is not
>		  a reflection of God's will."  So I guess cloning, Bosnia,
>		  Rwanda, etc. etc. are all part of the Master Plan, eh?)
>(11) Do you think human cloning should be completely legal?
>
>     __________ "Completely legal" = oxymoron -- as stated the question is
>		 totally unanswerable!!
>
>What are your thought on the scientific discipline of genetic engineering in
>general? [ie. in vitro fertilisation, cloning, cryonics, gene manipulation,
>gene transplantation, to name a few among many]
>
	It's all jolly good stuff that adds value to society, makes 
	money and keeps a lot of folk happy and content.

>Thank you in advance for you feed-back.
>
>John A. McKane
>Systematic Theology III
>Rhodes University
>
>e-mail replies to:  g92m2571@giraffe.ru.ac.za
>            or to:  g92m2571@hippo.ru.ac.za
>
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