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Select one of the following ethical issues in healthcare from the following choices:

• Gender selection in human embryos
• Stem cell transplants
• Foregoing curative medical treatment due to religious beliefs
• Futility of care
• Abortion after six months.
• Select Internet sources to conduct research on your chosen topic. Based on your research, provide the history of the issue from a legal, ethical, and moral perspective. In your paper address the following questions:

• Do the consequences of actions always direct what is morally required?
• What should happen when two principles come into conflict? For example, should patient autonomy be considered more important than beneficence? Defend your position.
• Are moral and ethically rules always binding, or are they only guidelines to be assessed in each case? Defend your position.

Your paper should meet the following requirements:

Be ten to twelve pages in length, not including the cover or reference pages.
Be formatted in APA

• Provide support for your statements with in-text citations from a minimum of eight scholarly references - four of these references must be from outside sources and four may be from course readings, lectures, and textbooks.
• Utilize headings to organize the content in your work.