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A 17-year-old has been diagnosed with a genetic disorder that results in 50 percent of the teenager's offspring carrying that gene. The teenager becomes pregnant and the teenager's mother demands th... e daughter have an abortion, but the teenager refuses.Which right is the teenager exercising? - ✔✔Autonomy A 23-year-old Christian scientist has been hit by a car and taken to the emergency room (ER). The patient presents to the ER and complains of pain. The patient's leg appears to be broken, so the ER staff prepares to take the patient's X-rays. When the staff arrives, the patient becomes angry, refuses the X-rays, and leaves the emergency room.Which ethical factor influences this patient's refusal of treatment? justice religion beneficence nonmaleficence - ✔✔religion A 35-year-old woman is suffering from a painful and aggressive stomach cancer. The woman is being cared for in the home by her husband. He has tried to make the wife more comfortable by giving pain medicine the way the hospice nurse outlined. Because the pain was unrelieved from the medicine, he quickly gave his wife another dose. The husband's intent was to relieve the wife's pain and not to cause death, but the wife died within the hour of respiratory failure.What is the result of the husband's dilemma? - ✔✔Double effect [Show More]

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