Cystic Fibrosis 2
Cystic Fibrosis is an inherited disease that is present at birth and is characterized by chronic lung infections and the inability to absorb fats and other nutrients from food. When Cystic Fibrosis was first identified in the 1930's, it claimed the lives of almost all of its victoms. Now with medical technology, over two-thirds of "CF" patients live well into their adult life, however few of them are in perfect health. Cystic Fibrosis, remains however, a serious and potientally fatial disorder. Sickel Cell Anemia ia an inherated blood disease that occurs primarily in blacks and less commonly found in individulas of Mediterranean origin. In Sickel Cell Anemia, the red blood cells are abnormal, resulting in a chronic, very sever form of Anemia (reduced oxygen carring compacity of the blood). Cloning sometimes has a mixture of sex prefrence and medical reasons when diseases are more present in one sex. Duchennes Muscular Dystrophy, Hemophillia, and Fragil "X" syndrom, for example, all occure more in males. Hemophillia, for example, effects one male in every 10,000. It is an inherited blood disorder caused by a defiency of a particular blood protein. Hemophilicacs suffer recurrent bleeding, most often in their joints.
The new technology of cloning, or genitic engineering, raises a realm of ethical, legal, medical ,social and philosophical questions that force us as people to revaluate our true value of human life. Programming genetic traits into human sex cells subjects the human species to the art of technical manipulation and design. With the arrival of genetic engineering, humanity approaches a crossroad of its own technological history. It will soon be possible to engineer and produce human beings by the same technoligacal design principles as we now employ in our industrail process. Cloning can give a couple the little boy or girl that they dreamed of, and it can also result in the death by abortion of an innocent victim merely because of its gender. Cloning can prevent people fom disease and help those who have them, however, with one simple mistake, it can creat an incurable deformity. In many cultures it is the answer for couples who wish to have the preferred males, in others it is considered playing god, a moral sin. The wholsale of human life raises a fundimental question, presented by Nobil Laureate biologist, Dr. Salvador Lauria when he questions, "When does a repaired or manufactured man stop being a man... and become a robot, an object, and industrial product?" (Manipulating Life, pg 12). This view is shared by many. Again and again over the past decade, science has declaired, "Look what we can do," and the defenders of morals and ethics have answered, " Yes, but maybe you shouldn't". It has happened over birth control, organ transplant, test-tube babies, surrogate mothers, mind altering medications, and now this genitic engineering. Much to the dis
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