Bioethics Final Exam Questions and Complete ANSWERS

BIOETHICS FINAL CASES, Matching terms Roe v. Wade (1973) ANSWER: The USSC held the state has a legitimate interest in seeing to it that abortion, like any other medical procedure, is performed under circumstances that insure the maximum safety for the patient -decide to alter standards-can have restriction in many ways as long as they were not undue to burden Baby M ANSWER: The court gave the right to the surrogate mother because she was the natural and legal mother and should not be penalized because the surrogate contract Quinlan ANSWER: privacy rights assured a person's prerogative to forgo life sustaining medical treatment Cruzan ANSWER: the court held that while individuals enjoyed the right to refuse medical treatment under the Due Process Clause, incompetent persons were not able to exercise such rights Schiavo ANSWER: Terri's feeding tube was removed by orders of the court . A week later the feeding tube was reinserted and went through insertion and removal 3 times before final removal (court sided with Mr. Schiavo who was appointed Mrs. Schiavo legal guardian during her vegetative state Tarasof ANSWER: A Physician or treating therapist has a duty to protect 3rd parties at risk among other interventions Casey ANSWER: spousal notification was unconstitutional/an undue burden on the mother to require spousal consent. States can restrict woman's abortion but can't cause undue burden Nancy Klein ANSWER: court allowed Martin Klein to become Nancy's guardian while she was in the coma, which would allow him to let physician's perform an abortion on Nancy to attempt to get her out of the coma. The judge did not grant any rights to anti-abortion protesters who wanted to become Nancy's guardian. Vivian ANSWER: Bouvia ANSWER: the hospital has to respect the patient's wishes if they are sound of mind when they make the decision U.S. Constitution ANSWER: supreme law of the land Respondiae superior ANSWER: latin phrase meaning "let the master answer", means the employer is responsible for the actions of the employer stare decisis ANSWER: latin phrase meaning "let the decision stand"