Ethical Implication Of Saviour Children

In this paper, I will be explaining the possibilities that comes in having saviour children in everyday society. Saviour children saves money for the families that have the sick children, no harm comes to either child, and saviour children are morally ethical. It does cost a lot of money to treat a child with a serious inherited disorder and to have this saviour child, however, they would save quite a bit of money later down the road. There is no harm that comes to the savior children because they have been screened for certain diseases and usually one thing is taken from the child- bone marrow or blood. As for them being morally ethically, you are not only saving another life, which in most cases it is a child, but you are also bringing another
Bone aspirations, removes a small amount of bone marrow fluid and cells through a needle put into a bone, this helps check for problems within the blood cells. The other procedure is bone marrow biopsy, which removes bone with the marrow inside to look at under a microscope. The aspiration (taking fluid) is usually done first, and then the biopsy. The aspiration is done more frequently. In some cases, it is done about 10 times before a child or adult has a transplant. These procedures both roughly cost $1,030 (national average). Once a problem is detected, bone marrow needs to be transplanted within the patient and once found, the cost of a bone marrow surgery would cost around $800,000. The reason for the cost s because you must add in the procedures that must be done before and after surgery, the tools used for surgery, anesthesia, recovery time that is spent in the hospital, and miscellaneous (food, water, etc). Bone marrow biopsy would cost around $8,000 for one patient. In the long run, expenses add up even with
The procedure for a “Saviour Child”, is with in vitro fertilization (IVF), eggs and sperm are incubated in a fertility clinic laboratory to create embryos. Once fertilized, the DNA material is taken out and after a few days, tests are done to determine which embryo to select for implantation in the mother’s uterus. If the the mother becomes pregnant, the newborn would become a stem-cell donor by taking the stem cells (which will be used for bone marrow) from the umbilical cord. When selecting the embryo, you are targeting the one that has if-threatening disease out of the DNA, such as Huntington's disease, cystic fibrosis, or Lymphoma. Usually, bone marrow and umbilical-cord-blood stem-cell transplants help cure or cause children with life threatening disease or cancer to go into remission. With this procedure, the child being born is completely safe with the chance that the om may miscarriage (depending on her age). The child with cancer, the only harm being done to them is that cancer they already have and the procedure they have ahead of them, which is a bit