Ethics and Decision Making Assignment

Assignment is due on saturday January 30th at 12pm eastern time.

APA Format

Option #1: Paper

Select one of the following ethical issues in healthcare from the following choices:

• Gender selection in human embryos
• Stem cell transplants
• Foregoing curative medical treatment due to religious beliefs
• Futility of care
• Abortion after six months.

Select Internet sources to conduct research on your chosen topic. Based on your research, provide the history of the issue from a legal, ethical, and moral perspective. In your paper address the following questions:

1. Do the consequences of actions always direct what is morally required?
2. What should happen when two principles come into conflict? For example, should patient autonomy be considered more important than beneficence? Defend your position.
3. Are moral and ethically rules always binding, or are they only guidelines to be assessed in each case? Defend your position.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be ten to twelve pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages.
• Be formatted in APA
• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of eight scholarly references - four of these references must be from outside sources and four may be from course readings, lectures, and textbooks. 
• Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.