A bioethicist may be asked to answer such questions as:
A.
Is it okay to let a person refuse life-saving medical treatment? Should parents be allowed to choose the sex of their child?
B.
Should terminally ill patients be allowed to end their lives with physician-prescribed medication? Can doctors quarantine or forcibly treat patients carrying an infectious disease like tuberculosis?
C.
Who should receive limited medical resources like organ transplants? Can a patient with renal failure buy a healthy kidney from a young man?
D.
Can researchers destroy frozen embryos in order to isolate stem cells that may be used to develop new medical treatments? Do we have a right to die?