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Cystic Fibrosis
Cystic Fibrosis is the largest fatal genetic disease in the country, and North America today. Its victims only have an average lifespan of up to 31 years. It is an inherited disease in which one allele causes mucus in organs like the lungs, intestines, kidneys, stomach, and others, to become thick and sticky making the organ not function properly. Cystic Fibrosis is usually present the worst in the respiratory system, and the digestive tract. CF can only be obtained by this single defective gene on the number 7 chromosome. Symptoms of this disease are able to be caught pretty early, starting with frequent airway infections, constant coughing, wheezing, abnormal metabolism(excessive amounts of food, with no weight gain), smelly and large feces, and pneumonia. A high level of salt in perspiration is an easy way to tell if a person has this disease. Every new born child now has a 1 in 3,300 chance of getting this disease, with 1 out of every 29 people are carriers.
Since we do not know the family history of the father it is hard to tell if he is a carrier of the gene or not. If he is, and the mother is as well then there will be a 25% chance of the child being infected with the disease. 
The major ethical issues of the case are simply stated, but hard to carry out. The issue is if Sarah's healthcare for her CF should be terminated, to end her life within a year. This is one issue that has been heavily debated in the past. The stakeholders in the case, are Sarah, since she will be the one having pain for almost a year straight. Her parents are a stakeholder, because they will be having to "pull the plug" on her treatment and be losing
a daughter, and finally the doctor. The doctor is a stakeholder because he could be severely effected by this decision. If he stops treatment his license could be revoked, and his career could go down the drain.
The ethical questions confronting the...
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