Medical Ethics Coursework - Genetic Engineering arguments

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Shaquil Biswas

RS Islam

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In this essay I intend to give religious and non religious views on genetic engineering, from the religion Islam and Christianity.

Genetic engineering is a very recent study into genes and the possibilities of altering genes which in turn could change characteristics, height eye colour and so on. Another very important use genetic engineering has is the possibility of changing the genes so that you wouldn’t be a sufferer of many diseases for example cystic fibrosis, cancer and Huntingdon’s etc, one of the various ways of changing the genetic makeup of a human being is by using stem cells, these stem cells are like the foundations of the more developed greater cells, stem cells are usually taken from the babies umbilical cord but can also be taken from embryos of developing babies, but would mean the embryo would have to be destroyed after the stem cells were taken.

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I will begin my essay by talking about Islamic views for genetic engineering Islam says in the Quran and in the Hadith that Muslims should go to all lengths to try to cure diseases and could even be looked at in the sense of suicide by not curing the disease and suicide is prohibited in Islam, Islamic scholars also say that finding out more about humans and discovering new things about the human body is what Allah intends for us to do as humans, in the Quran we are told to seek knowledge and always be open to new ...

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