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WorksheetsPremarital and Genetic Screening Ethics
Total questions: 8
Worksheet time: 4mins
Evaluating couples who intend to get married soon for certain genetic blood disorders (e.g. sickle cell anemia, thalassemia, and sickle cell anemia), and infectious diseases (e.g., Hepatitis B or C and HIV/ AIDS).
Premarital genetic screening
Genetic screening
A form of public health service that is provided routinely to a designated group of asymptomatic individuals in order to provide preventive, early care, or fertility alternatives to those classified as high risk
Genetic screening
Beneficence
When the couple take actions to benefit and to promote the welfare of other people and doing no harm
Beneficence
Veracity
The right of the couple to make their final decision regards the result of the tests
Veracity
Autonomy
The couple are responsible for their own conduct
Liability
Veracity
Hereditary blood disorders from parents to their offspring that are passed down
Genetic disorders
Genetically incompatible
A term for a negative genetic screening test result for couples which means that the couple do not have any genetic disorders or are carriers of certain genetic mutations and may reproduce with a low chance of offspring with genetic mutations or disorders.
Genetically incompatible
Genetic screening
Health care provider should always tell the whole truth to the couples regards the result of the tests
Veracity
Fidelity
