Bioethics
The role of ethics plays a major role in the scientific research going on today. Life is starting to be created in a laboratory, as opposed to the natural way. This is unethical, as this is not the way life is intended to be made. Scientists are skipping a major step. People are working day and night to make life through tests to later dispose of them. An embryo is created just to be later killed, which is not morally correct. The killing of babies is not ethical. They are helpless, especially ones made in a laboratory.
There is another side of this. Although the embryos being made in a laboratory are being thrown out, they could be used for good. For example, they are being used as cancer research. These minuscule life forms may be the answer to diseases as of now untreatable. Through the producing and killing of these babies, the world could be changed forever. The question you have to ask yourself is if this is ethical to you or not. Through the killing of one, millions could be saved.
Who gets to decide who lives and who doesn’t? That is the next question to ask yourself. Who gets bestowed the crown to decide life or death to a helpless baby? Is it the parents? The lab workers? The list could go on and on of who gets to choose, but in the end, it is a personal decision. One answer is it is definitely not the government. The government does not get to decide who seems fit to bear a child, and who should not pass their gene pool on. Humans are tainted, and we make mistakes. A mistake could lead to the killing of a human, or many humans for that matter. This is why is should be a personal decision, so that the blame is on that person, not someone else.
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