An eight-year-old girl is suffering from a rare form of cancer and is in need of a bone marrow transplant. Despite searches for the past year, no donor match has been located. The parents decide to have another child, hoping that the younger child will be a blood marrow match for their eight-year-old. The baby will be born in the next three months.
Discussion Question
1. Compare consequence-oriented decision making and duty-oriented decision making in this case. In your opinion, which method of decision making will lead to the best decision for everyone concerned, or are the methods equal in that both will lead to the optimum decision?