Assignment task:
Adam Nash was born in Colorado on August 29, 2000. He had been an embryo that was sorted, screened, and selected from at least 12 embryos from the Nash couple, Lisa and Jack, for the purpose of tissue matching for the critically ill daughter, Molly.
Molly Nash was born to the Nash parents on July 4, 1994, with Fanconi's anemia, a fatal autosomal recessive bone marrow failure (aplastic anemia), which is only treatable with a bone marrow transplant from a sibling's umbilical cord blood. At that time, the success rate of a bone marrow transplant from an unrelated donor was only 42%, but from a sibling, the success rate increased to 85%.
The Nash parents, with support of physicians, made the decision to have preimplantation genetic testing on their embryos in the hopes of saving their only child. In the process, 12 of Lisa's eggs were fertilized by Jack's sperm via in vitro fertilization; 2 of the embryos had Fanconi's anemia and were discarded. Of the remaining 10 embryos, only one matched Molly's tissue. This one became Adam Nash.
1. Were the Nash's justified in creating Adam for the purpose of helping Molly get well? In other words, should humans be used as a means to an end? Explore the connection with Kant's deontology theory (you will need to research this) and the Nash's situation.
2. What could have potentially happened to the 9 remaining embryos? What should have happened to them? Need Assignment Help?
3. How was it justified to discard the 2 embryos that Fanconi's anemia and keep the one that became Adam? Consider your beliefs regarding when life begins and the moral equality of each life.