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• Title: It's Against Nature (Essay)
• Author : The Hastings Center Report
• Release Date : January 01, 2009
• Genre: Life Sciences,Books,Science & Nature,Health, Mind & Body,Health & Fitness,
• Pages : * pages
• Size : 50 KB

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A couple of years ago, a physician involved in the Ashley case launched a presentation about it at a bioethics conference by dismissing one of the stupider objections, as he saw it, to the interventions Ashley's parents had requested. Ashley is a profoundly cognitively disabled child; her parents sought and obtained interventions, both surgical and pharmacological, that effectively stalled her physical development at a prepubescent stage. The dismissed objection had this form: "These interventions are against nature, and therefore wrong." The presenter did not analyze the objection; he just said he didn't buy it. I don't either. On the other hand, I do find myself swayed by a concern of some sort about what human beings do to nature, including to human nature. I think it's better to leave great old trees standing than pointlessly to chop them down, better to leave a patch of prairie than to pave it over, better to let species carry on than to bring about their extinction. I take a fairly dim view of breast augmentation, nose jobs, Botox, skin bleaching, and drug-enhanced muscle building. What stops me from saying that those things are "against nature, and therefore wrong," is an assortment of complexities that require a much more nuanced and qualified comment.

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