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Alaina McDonnell Student of Marlen Harrison Email:alaina.mcdonnell@spartans.ut

Common Controversies : How do college students’ opinions on stem cell research and abortion correlate? . Alaina McDonnell Student of Marlen Harrison Email:alaina.mcdonnell@spartans.ut.edu. Overview. Thought provoker warm-up Definitions My hypotheses The Survey Data Collection

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Alaina McDonnell Student of Marlen Harrison Email:alaina.mcdonnell@spartans.ut

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  1. Common Controversies : How do college students’ opinions on stem cell research and abortion correlate? Alaina McDonnell Student of Marlen Harrison Email:alaina.mcdonnell@spartans.ut.edu

  2. Overview • Thought provoker warm-up • Definitions • My hypotheses • The Survey • Data Collection • Brief summary

  3. WORD RECOGNITION EXERCISE:Your thoughts1st word that comes to mind5 seconds per word

  4. Human

  5. Abortion

  6. Stem Cells

  7. What do these things all have in Common? • GREAT CONTROVERSY

  8. What is a stem Cell? • Stem cells are cells from which all other cells with specialized functions are generated.

  9. 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

  10. What do you Think? QUICK DISCUSSION

  11. My Hypotheses • They will correlate. • Religion and political beliefs will be a factor. • Moral views will be a common answer on both sides.

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

  13. The survey: • Do you Support Abortion • Why? • Do you support stem cell research? • Why?

  14. Results? • Just finished data collection • Surprising Reasoning

  15. My Sources • Brown, J. (2005, March 5). www.all.org. Retrieved from http://www.all.org/article/index/id/MjQ0NA • Concannon, J., Freyermuth, S., Halverson, K., & Siegel, M. (2009). College 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

  16. Last Page of Sources • Montague, 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

  17. More Sources • Harman, 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. Philosophic Transactions: 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].

  18. Thank you! • To all participants and Marlen Harrison, my professor.

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