COMMON CONTROVERSIES : HOW DO COLLEGE STUDENTS’ OPINIONS ON STEM CELL RESEARCH AND ABORTION CORRELATE?

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OVERVIEW• Thought provoker warm-up • Definitions• My hypotheses• The Survey• Data Collection• Brief summary

WORD RECOGNITION EXERCISE:YOUR THOUGHTS

1ST WORD THAT COMES TO MIND5 SECONDS PER WORD

Human

Abortion

Stem Cells

WHAT DO THESE THINGS ALL HAVE IN COMMON?

GREAT CONTROVERS

Y

WHAT IS A STEM CELL?

Stem cells are cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are

generated.

ABORTION:“THE TERMINATION OF A PREGNANCY AFTER, ACCOMPANIED BY, RESULTING IN, OR CLOSELY FOLLOWED BY THE DEATH OF THE EMBRYO OR

FETUS”-WEBSTER MEDICAL DICTIONARY 3types:

• Invasive• Chemical• Medical

WHAT DO YOU THINK?

QUICK DISCUSSION

MY HYPOTHESES

1.They will correlate.2.Religion and political beliefs will be a

factor.3.Moral views will be a common answer

on both sides.

METHODS

• Short , Online Survey• College Students• Available via email and Facebook

THE SURVEY:

1.Do you Support Abortion2.Why?3.Do you support stem cell

research?4.Why?

RESULTS?• Just finished data

collection• Surprising Reasoning

MY SOURCESBrown, J. (2005, March 5). www.all.org. Retrieved from http

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students' conceptions of stem cells, stem cell research, and cloning. Journal of Science, Education and Technology, 19, 177-186.

FIRMIN, M. W., CHI-EN, H., & WOOD, J. (2007). BELIEFS VERSUS ACTIONS: ASSESSING ABORTION VIEWS AND BEHAVIORS AT TWO COLLEGES. Social Behavior & Personality: An International Journal, 35(10), 1325-1333.

Giubilini, A. (2012). Abortion and the Argument from Potential: What We Owe to the Ones Who Might Exist. Journal Of Medicine & Philosophy, 37(1), 49-59.

Guhr, A., Kurtz, A., Friedgen, K. and Löser, P. (2006), Current State of Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research: An Overview of Cell Lines and Their Use in Experimental Work. STEM CELLS, 24: 2187–2191. doi: 10.1634/stemcells.2006-0053

LAST PAGE OF SOURCESMontague, P. (2011). Stem Cell Research and the Problem of Embryonic

Identity. Journal Of Ethics, 15(4), 307-319. doi:10.1007/s10892-011-9107-1

Salter, B., & Salter, C. (2007). Bioethics and the global moral economy: The cultural politics of human embryonic stem cell science. Science, Technology and Human Values, 32(5), 554-581. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.esearch.ut.edu/stable/29734004?&Search=yes&searchText=cells&searchText=abortion&searchText=stem&list=hide&searchUri=/action/doBasicSearch?Query=abortion+and+stem+cells&fromHomePage=true&acc=on&wc=on&fc=off&prevSearch=&item=4&ttl=2170&returnArticleService=showFullText

Webster, M. (2012, January 01). Abortion. Retrieved from http://www.merriam- n webster.com/medical/abortion

ALL PICTURES USED IN THIS PRESENTATION WERE FROM POWERPOINT CLIP ART

MORE SOURCESHarman, E. (2007). HOW IS THE ETHICS OF STEM CELL RESEARCH DIFFERENT FROM

THE ETHICS OF ABORTION?. Metaphilosophy, 38(2/3), 207-225. doi:10.1111/j.1467-Hinkley, A. E. (2011). Introduction: Embryonic Stem Cell Research, Abortion, Euthanasia,

and the Plurality of Moralities in Bioethics. Journal Of Medicine & Philosophy, 36(3), 217-220.

Kornegay, R. (2011). Hursthouse's Virtue Ethics and Abortion: Abortion Ethics without Metaphysics?. Ethical Theory & Moral Practice, 14(1), 51-71. doi:10.1007/s10677-010-9230-2

Liu, Y., Magnus, T., Parker, G., & Rao, M. (2008). Stem cell myths. PhilosophicTransactions: Biological Sciences, 363(1489), 9-22. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org/stable/20210035

Mayo Staff Clinic (2010). Stem Cells: What They are and What They Do. [ONLINE] Available at:http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/stem-cells/CA00081. [Last Accessed January 30, 2012].

THANK YOU!

To all participants and Marlen Harrison, my

professor.