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Abortion and health care ethics -- Abortion and infanticide -- A Def ense of abortion -- Why abortion is immoral -- Are pregnant women fetal containers? -- The McCaughey septuplets: God's will or human choice? - - Surrogate mothering: exploitation or empowerment? -- A Response to Pu rdy -- The Right to Lesbian parenthood -- Rights, interests, and possib le people -- Genetics and reproductive risk: can having children be imm oral? -- Prenatal diagnosis and selective abortion: a challenge to prac tice and policy -- Genetic technology: a threat to deafness -- Sex sele ction: the case for -- Conception to obtain hematopoietic stem cells -- Why we should not permit embryos to be selected as tissue donors -- Th e Moral status of the cloning of humans -- Questions about some uses of genetic engineering -- Ethical issues in manipulating the human germ l ine -- The Moral significance of the therapy-enhancement distinction in human genetics -- Should we undertake genetic research on intelligence ? -- Lessons from a dark and distant past -- Patient autonomy and value -neutrality in nondirective genetic counseling -- Genetic dilemmas and the child's right to an open future -- The Sanctity of life -- Declarat ion on euthanasia -- The Morality of killing: a traditional view -- Act ive and passive euthanasia -- Is killing no worse than letting die? -- Why killing is not always worse - and sometimes better - than letting d ie --