Jim Bramlett (2 Oct 2007)
"Ethics test: What would you do?"


Please consider the below ethics dilemmas and decide what you would do.

A professor in a college ethics class presented his students with an ethics problem for their consideration and decision as to a course of action.

He said, "A man has syphilis and his wife has tuberculosis. They have had four children; one has died, the other three have what is considered to be a terminal illness. The mother is pregnant again. What do you recommend?"

After a spirited discussion, the majority of the class voted that she should have an abortion.

"Fine," said the professor. "You've just killed Beethoven."

(From The Tale Of The Tardy Oxcart by Charles R. Swindoll.)
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More:

1.  There is a preacher and wife who are very, very, poor. They already have 14 kids. Now she finds out she is pregnant with number 15. They are living in tremendous poverty. Considering their poverty and the excessive world population, would you consider recommending she get an abortion?

2.  A white man raped a 13-year-old black girl, and she got pregnant. If you were her parents, would you considering recommending abortion?

3.  A poor black family in the South is expecting a fifth child. This family, because of its skin color, already has difficulty receiving help and are already at the bare minimum poverty level. The outlook for their present children does not look bright.  Abortion?


4.  A teenage girl is pregnant. She is not married. Her fiance is not the father of the baby, and he is very upset. Would you consider recommending abortion?

If you answered yes to the above:

In the first case, you have just killed John Wesley, one of the great evangelists in the 19th century.

In the second case, you have killed Ethel Waters, the great black gospel singer.

In the third case, you have just killed Martin Luther King.

If you said yes to the fourth case, you have just declared the murder of Jesus Christ!!

(Source unknown)

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The other day I saw a glamorous photo of a beautiful blonde model.  She was wearing a T-shirt where on the front in large letters it was prominently written: "I survived Roe v. Wade."