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Donor Babies With Deontological Ethics Essay

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We all love our siblings, but would you ever just want to be on this earth to be a mere end to save their life? It is becoming more common to have children just for that reason, and that is why they are being called donor babies. It is almost as if they have a duty to save their siblings lives, without having an opinion. Therefore, I will be defending the case of donor babies with Deontological ethics. Although, many people will raise the objection that it is right to have donor children to save the lives of others, it is clearly morally wrong to use that baby as a means and then, one day, that child will see themselves in that way. We bring children into this world to love and cherish them, not for one specific reason; to save a life. With deontological ethics the action is considered morally good because of some aspect of the action itself, not because the product of the action is good. I will be using this and applying it to “Donor Babies” to prove how it is morally good to be a donor baby, under this moral theory. Since, these children are helping to save a life, …show more content…

Also, what if the daughter would have died in the time of the mother’s pregnancy or during the period of contraception. If the child was kept, it most likely would grow up knowing it was a mere mean for a family member, whom have already died. With Kant’s theory of deontology, we must act in a sense of a perfect duty in order to obtain the maxim and have it become a universal law. Because if we act with the preconceived notion of an imperfect duty no one will help anyone, and in this case, we must act in a perfect duty to help anyone. Although, the child should not be born just out of spit of an illness and with that big of an age gap. Going back to the previous objection, if the child had already died, it is the parent’s moral duty to keep the baby despite the original effort to save the

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