Medical Ethics & Health debate motions (page 3)

THW ban non-medical research into genetics of race.

Roosevelt Open 2016 · 2

TH would ban private healthcare

SOAS IV · 1

TH would legalise a market for organs

Trivium Tournament · 5

In countries with public healthcare, THW not cover life prolonging treatments for the elderly.

Munich Open · 5

THBT the state should not fund blueskies research

Sheffield IV 2016 · 2

THBT individuals should only fund charities that follow effective altruism

Sheffield IV 2016 · Open_Semis

You are a research scientist working for a large pharmaceutical corporation. You accidentally discover a drug which indefinitely delays the aging process for as long as it is taken (and produces gold). No-one else is aware of what you have done. THW destroy all evidence of your discovery - Round 4

NZ Easters 2016 · 4

THS filial responsibility laws (infoslide provided)

HWS Round Robin 2016 · 2

THS health insurance companies offering terminally ill patients the option of a lump sum payment to forgo expensive life-extending treatments.

HWS Round Robin 2016 · Open_Final

THW ban the research and production of moral enhancement drugs

Malaysia WUDC 2015 · 7

TH, as a medical professional employed by the US military or security sevices, would, and would encourage others, to refuse orders to provide medical treatment to individuals undergoing 'enhanced interrogation techniques'

Malaysia WUDC 2015 · 9

THW grant the unqualified right to assisted suicide to all mentally sound adults.

AIB Trinity IV 2015 · 1

THW nationalise all pharmaceutical companies in countries with a national health service.

Norton Rose Fulbright Warwick IV · 1

THW transfer complete strategic control of the NHS to a body of experts, appointed by experienced medical practitioners and not accountable to Parliament (with info slide)

DWF Manchester IV · 4

THBT even if human life could be extended indefinitely, society should choose to end their lives at 100 years

DWF Manchester IV · ESL_Final

This House would allow euthanasia for consenting adults and children

Leiden Open · 1

THW force fathers to take paternity leave

Cardiff Open 2015 · 4

THR The Use of Medical Data From Nazi Experiments

Estonian Open · Open_Semis

Assuming that technology existed that would allow one to transfer years of their natural life (the time one would live, if not cut down unnaturally by disease or accident

Cape Town Open · 5

Assuming a technology exists which causes people contemplating committing violent crimes to feel nausea and pain, rendering them unable to think about or commit a crime

Helsinki Open · Open_Final

TH regrets the classification of human behaviors (Such as depression, eating disorders, etc.) as diseases.

Israeli Open Championship 2015 · Open_Final

THW require men to take paternity leave

SSE Riga Debate Academy · 1

TH, as Dr Bob Hare, would not make the pyschopathy checklist publicly available

Ljubljana IV · Open_Semis

This House would ban any treatment, service or ritual from claiming a physical healing effect until it is tested and proven more effective than a placebo by a national regulator.

Vienna EUDC 2015 · 4

Given the existence of a drug that dramatically increases mental capacity, THBT universities should ban and test for student use of the drug.

Yale IV · 6

THBT militaries should aggressively engage in the genetic and bionic enhancement of consenting soldiers.

KCL IV · Open_Semis

THBT the concept of "safe spaces" has no place in any academic activity or environment.

Tilbury House IV · Open_Final

THW only fund medicine based on its impact on Quality Adjusted Life Years (with info slide)

Westminster Open 2015 · 3

This house would allow opponents of abortion to sign legally-binding contracts with pregnant women, in which they pay those pregnant women not to have an abortion.

Oxford IV · 5

THW dramatically reduce the patent life on life saving drugs

Birmingham ESL Novice Mini 2015 · Open_Final

This house believes that medical staff should be able to opt out of providing treatments on religious or ethical grounds

Cambridge IV · 1

TH opposes the search for a cure to autism

McMaster Pro-Am · 5

THBT governments should place no restrictions on how welfare payments, excluding child benefit, are spent.

Cambridge Women's Open · 1

THW ban surgical genital alteration procedures for minors that are not strictly medically necessary for bodily or sexual function

Brandeis IV · 3

THB abortions that are based on the fetus showing signs of non-fatal physical and developmental disabilities

Brandeis IV · Open_Semis

THW allow mental health charities to sue media outlets for the defamation of the mentally ill

Birmingham IV · Open_Quarters

THS international commercial surrogacy

BRAC Bank Great Gender Debates 2015 · 3

That the government should regulate automated driving systems (e.g. google driverless cars), so that in the event of a potential accident, the programme makes decisions that prioritise the safety of those outside of the vehicle over that of the passengers within.

New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2015 · 3

THBT government agencies that regulate drugs should only test whether a drug is safe, not whether it is effective, before approving it for public use.

Chennai WUDC 2014 · 7

THBT women should reject practices that alter the appearance of their genitalia, such as waxing and labiaplasty

Chennai WUDC 2014 · Open_Semis

THW provide strong financial support to families who decide to bring a foetus with Down syndrom to term and raise it by themselves

Zeit Debatte Dresden · 4

THBT the EU should lift its ban on exporting sedatives used in lethal injections to the USA

Nottingham Trent Open · 2

If the tech to do so were available, THW allow disabled parents to ensure their children are born with their disabilities

London Pro-Am IV · 1

Health insurances should be allowed to refuse medicines on the basis of their costs

Brabants Debattoernooi · 3

In a world in which the Z-gene exists, THW require that mutants be constantly monitored by the state from birth.

York IV · 2

TH, as a wealthy individual, rather than paying the full rate of tax, would avoid taxation in order to donate to charity, according to his/her own moral preferences

Warwick IV · Open_Final

THW allow euthanasia for patients suffering from dementia (and therefore legally incapable) who have signed an advance directive (request for euthanasia) Info

Bonapartiaans Debattoernooi · 2

THW introduce Mandatory Organ Donation

Irish Times Debates Open_Semis · Open_Semi_4

When father of a fetus favours abortion and this is not carried out, THW allow him to excuse himself from any responsibility for the child;

Tornadu · Open_Semi_3

THW compel doctors to report suspected cases of domestic abuse to the police

Glasgow Ancients · 1

TH, when testing life-extending treatments for terminally ill patients, would not use control groups

Tallaight IV · 3

THBT NGOs/charities should not accept donations from organizations that contradict their aims

Vienna IV · 1

In situations where it's not possible to achieve both aims and the decision lies with the doctor, THBT doctors should prioritize prolonging life over the quality of that life

Vienna IV · 2

Assuming participants have consented freely and in full knowledge of the risks and possible consequences, THW allow its citizens to participate in the "Thirst Games"

Vienna IV · 5

Given a machine that can predict a person's life 95% accurately, THW not use it

Vienna IV · Open_Quarters

TH supports compulsory fully privatised healthcare for people living above the poverty line

Bucharest Cup · Open_Final

Should all people be required to take a vaccination against human gene mutation (of the X-men variety) after birth?

Reedhoven Cup · 2

Should killing and feeding (Verfüttern) zoo animals for population control and consolidation of genetic diversity be banned?

Reedhoven Cup · Open_Final

THW create a market in internal organs

Royal Holloway Open · 1

In countries where prostitution is legal, THBT national health systems should cover services of sex workers for the disabled.

Arandjelovac Open · 1

This House Believes That liberal states with sexually conservative communities should subsidise hymenoplasty

DCU Open · 5

THW compel doctors to facilitate the deaths of consenting and competent patients.

Liverpool IV · 4

THW offer drug and alcohol addicts substantial cash payments in return for agreeing to undergo sterilisation

Southampton Open · 1

THBT major news-media organisations should not interview people with views outside the consensus of the scientific community

Southampton Open · 2

THW ban commercial surrogacy

National Maiden's · 1

THW permit parents to stunt physical development of their severely mentally disabled children.

HWS Round Robin · 5

TH, as the parent of a child diagnosed with ADHD would conceal the diagnosis from the child and its school

NK Debatteren (Dutch National Championships) · 5

THW allow assisted suicide for terminally ill children with the consent of their parents.

Berlin IV · 3

THBT it is immoral to donate to animal welfare charities while there are charities which aim to alleviate human suffering still in need.

Paris Open · 1

THW decriminalise the intentional and negligent transmission of HIV.

Hull Open · Open_Final

THW replace the state pension with a state disability insurance

North-East German Regional Championships · Open_Semis

THW allow parents to decide to let their severally mentally handicapped children be operated or treated with hormones so that they will not enter physical puberty

South German Regional Championships · 3

THW legalise the sale and purchase of human organs

Copenhagen Open · 1

Should universities stop giving out honours or titles for which no scientific labour or standards were met (e.g. honourary doctors title)?

Zeit Debatte Mainz · 1

THBT developing countries should hold the Catholic church financially liable for the medical expenses of AIDS victims in areas where the church campaigns against condom use.

Cape Town Open · 2

THW give highly advanced artificial intelligence the same rights as humans

Kalliope Debattoernooi · Open_Final

THW grant legal personality to animals

French Language World Championships Debating · 8

(inkl.Factsheet) Should we reserve prostheses and implants for people with physical deficiencies?

Neckarwiesen Cup · 2

THW allow family members of drug addicts to force the addicts to go into rehab

Trivium Debattoernooi · 1

This house would fund cosmetic plastic surgery.

Riga Debate Academy · 1

TH regrets the increasing classification of human behaviour as illnesses

Deutsche Debattiermeisterschaft (German Language Debating Championships) · 5

Paternity leave should be equal to maternity leave

Eloquentiatoernooi (Eloquence tournament) · 1.1

TH condemns the progressive marketisation of our health care system

Jena Frauenturnier (Women's tournament) · 4

THW require all licenses for ethically controversial scientific experiments to be approved by a majority of a randomly selected group of citizens

Newcastle Mixed Doubles Open · 2

THW legalise commercial surrogacy.

Newcastle Mixed Doubles Open · 3

THW allow the use of nootropics for academic and professional purposes

Heart of Europe BP · 1

This House believes men should have the right to refuse paternal financial obligations towards pregnancies they did not consent to.

Bulgaria Open · 1

Infoslide: you have the ability to know when and how people are going to die. THW not tell anyone

Bulgaria Open · Novice_Final

THW Prosecute The Parents/Guardians of Obese Children For Neglect

Earlsfort Open · 1

THB one should not be entitled to seek removal of any links to any data irrespective of their being ''inadequate, irrelevant or excessive"

Earlsfort Open · Open_Semis

THW not invest in research and development that has the delay of the aging process as its sole purpose.

Boddencup · 2

THBT we should prohibit public hospitals to proscribe alternative treatments (like homeopathic treatments, accupuncture or Bach flower remedies)

Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE) · 2

THW penalise a person who knows they have HIV and has sexual contacts with others without informing them

Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE) · 6

THBT smokers should cover the costs of their medical treatments

Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE) · 8

THW not take the drug.

Bielefeld Religion debate tournament · 3

THBT state health care providers should offer and fund faith-based treatment options.

Westminster IV · 1

TH belives that militaries are justified in directing their troops to use the Hannibal procedure

Ljubljana IV · Open_Semis

This house would ban international aid charities from using senational, graphic, or overly-emotional images of suffering in fundraising and advertising campaigns.

Zagreb EUDC 2014 · 3

THW legalize the sale of organs, blood and marrow

McGill Novice · 1

THW allow international commercial surrogacy

Edinburgh Cup · 2

THW impose a tax on unhealthy foods

UCL President's Cup · 1

THR that companies such as Facebook and Apple have offered to pay for elective egg freezing for their employees.

Roosevelt Open · 3

THBT people who go bankrupt should have their finances managed by the state for five years.

Roosevelt Open · 5

THW require parents to vaccinate their children, except where doing so is not in the child's medical interest

SOAS IV · 1

THBT retired parents should be allowed to seek alimony payments from their adult children.

Strathclyde Cup · 1

THBT developing nations should hold the Catholic Church financially liable for the medical expenses of Catholic HIV/AIDS victims in areas where the church campaigns against condom use

Belgrade Open · 4

THBT donations to disease charities should be redistributed among these disease charities according to the number of people affected by each disease.

Tilbury House · 3

THBT Google should inform the authorities about suicide searches

Cambridge IV · ESL_Semis

Assuming the existence of a gay gene, THW disproportionately favour embryos that possess it in IVF.

Cambridge IV · ESL_Final

THW prohibit all research aiming to create sentient artificial intelligences.

Cambridge IV · Open_Quarters

THW hide the diagnosis of pseudo-epilepsy from the patient

Cicero Debattoernooi · 2

THW allow terminally ill patients to access experimental treatments

Guindon Cup (University of Ottawa) · 5

THW allow individuals to opt out of employment provisions and regulations relating to health and safety in return for increased pay

McMaster Pro-Am · 4

THW financially incentivize vegetarianism.

McMaster Pro-Am · Open_Finals

THW allow the Children's Aid Society to force chemotherapy.

Canadian British Parliamentary Championships (@ Western University) · Open_Finals

THBT celebrities should not act as spokespeople for humanitarian issues

Moscow Open 2014 · 5

This house would prohibit research into human augmentation designed to facilitate transhumanism.

Joynt Scroll 2014 · 6

(Info Slide) THW ban the practice and use of all alternative therapies

Nottingham Trent IV · 3

THW compel HIV infected people to disclose their HIV status to their sexual partners

Nottingham Trent IV · Open_Final

Should throw our principles away (over board)?

Zeit Debatte Hamburg · 3

THB the west should not recruit doctors from the developing world

Regents' IV · 1

THW rather die before they get old.

French Debating Association Tournament · A1

THW make abortion mandatory in cases of severe medical conditions that lead to short and painful lives

Rotterdam BP toernooi · Open_Final

THW ban any technology that can delete or alter a person's memory

John Smith Memorial Mace · 2

THBT all policy on drugs, alcohol, tobacco and other controlled substances should be made by expert scientific panels and not elected officials

Inner Temple IV · 3

THW ban the use of artificial human augmentation, either by surgical or genetic therapy.

John Smith Memorial Mace · Open_Quarter_1

THBT in order to continue to eat meat individuals should personally slaughter a major meat animal

Budapest Open · 3

THW ban unpaid internships

Glasgow Ancients · 2

THW allow parents of children with Klüver-Bucy syndrome to sterilise those children

UL Open · 1

THW would allow parents to microchip their children without the child's consent

Nottingham Open · 2

In a possible near future world, a computer chip has been developed which can painlessly be implanted in the brain, preventing all sexual desire. At the same time, technology has advanced to the point where completely asexual human reproduction is possible. THW prefer that world to this one.

Nottingham Open · Open_Final

THW legalise the private sale of organs

UCL IV · 1

THBT children under 18 with close relatives who are victims of FGM should not be allowed to travel outside the EU

Royal Holloway Open · 2

THW allow soldiers to volunteer for experimental genetic and physical modifications

Irish National Maidens · 4

THB in a human right to suicide

Zeit Debatte Marburg · 5

THBT Western liberal democracies should ban unpaid internships

Exeter Open · 1

THBT parents of underaged children should not drink alcohol

St Petersburg Debating Open · 1

THW allow individuals to opt out of employment provisions relating to health and safety in return for increased pay

DCU Open · 1

THW make failure to render reasonable assistance to a person in distress a criminal offence.

Estonian Open · 5

Should HIV-infected people be forced to take a pill that would kill them within three days?

Potsdam Puls Punk · 2

Should sexual acts with robots be banned, as soon as these are physically comparable to human beings?

Potsdam Puls Punk · 4

Should scientific writings be freely available?

Potsdam Puls Punk · Open_Semis

THW legally bind children to take care of their parents once the parents reach old age.

HSE Open · 1

THW offer terminally ill patients the option of a cash grant if they forgo treatment and consent to early euthanasia

Nordic Debating Championships · 4

You are a single woman in her twenties. Sleeping with your boss would probably significantly advance your career. THW do it.

Split Open · 2

THW require that all marginal increases in funding for healthcare technology be spent on whatever NICE believes most cost effectively maximises Quality Adjusted Life Years.

Cambridge Invitational · 3

You are Arnold Schwarzenegger, You are presented a script in which you are asked to portray a SS Nazi Officer who is presented in a positive humane light. THW take on the role

Stockholm IV · Open_Semis

THW make organ donations after death mandatory

Zeit Debatte Aachen · 1

THW check all Doctorate theses of living persons for plagiarism

Zeit Debatte Aachen · 4

THW ban alternative medicine

Zeit Debatte Aachen · Open_Semis

Should genetic testing right after birth be made mandatory?

Brüder Grimm Cup · 4

Should Telecommunications providers be required by law to ensure net neutrality?

Brüder Grimm Cup · Open_Semis

Seed companies seek out strong-yielding plants and sterilise the seeds. The plants cannot produce fertile seeds and the companies protect their license rights. Motion: Should plant sterilisation be banned?

Deutschsprachige Debattiermeisterschaft · 3

Assume the technical possibility of a manned flight to Mars, without the possibility to survive there on a long-term basis, or to return: Should we send a manned spacecraft to Mars?

Deutschsprachige Debattiermeisterschaft · 4

Should prisoners on hungerstrike be forcefed?

Deutschsprachige Debattiermeisterschaft · Open_Semis

THW require couples that intend to enter into official partnerships to be informed of their partners full genetic profile and other health issues

Riga Debate Academy · Open_Final

THBT tech companies should never share user information with governments.

GDPPC Open · 1

THW grant patients the full right to inspect records of their own treatment from psychotherapists

Elbe Open · 1

THW privatise healthcare

Vienna Mini · 1

Presuming the technology existed to alter people's sexual orientation, THW make that technology available on the national health service

Earlsfort Open · Open_Semis

THW prohibit in financial settlements lawsuits against pharmaceutical companies

Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE or Worlds in Spanish) · 5

THW allow organ donation only to those individuals who are donors

Campeonato Mundial Universitario de Debate en Español (CMUDE or Worlds in Spanish) · 6

THW legalise assisted suicide for any reason.

DAPDI · 1

This House, given the technology, would allow medical procedures which endow human beings with superpowers

DAPDI · Open_Final

THBT coaches should be held liable for players which they choose to play with the knowledge that those players were already injured.

Commonwealth Open (Australs style) · 3.3

THBT the jury in all medical malpractice trials should consist solely of medical professionals.

Red Sea Open · 3

THBT the discovery of a means of stopping the aging process would be a bad thing for society. (Clarifying information: For this debate 'stopping the aging process' means that bodies would stop aging after the age of 35; it does NOT mean that people would stop dying of things unrelated to the process of aging).

Red Sea Open · Open_Semis

THB President Obama should grant Chelsea Manning a presidential pardon

Edinburgh Cup · 5

THW ban conversion therapy to "cure" homosexuality (assuming the therapy has a 10% chance of success)

SOAS IV · 3

THBT no further research should be done on the creation of Lethal Autonomous Robots

SOAS IV · 4

THBT the government should assist physically healthy people in the act of committing suicide.

McMaster Pro-Am · 4

THBT governments should make children's vaccinations obligatory

Dutch Masters · 1

In countries with a state alternative, THW ban private healthcare.

NAMDA Novice Cup · 1

THS medical tourism.

Chancellor's Cup (Queen's University) · 1

THW not assign a sex to babies born with ambiguous genitalia.

Chancellor's Cup (Queen's University) · 4

THW provide free heroin for heroin addicts

UBC IV · 1

THW not allow individuals to opt into a one-way mission to Mars with the Mars One Project.

Durham IV · 4

THW pay drug addicts to be permanently sterilised

Durham IV · Open_Semis

THW Legalise licensed brothels

Welsh Novices · 1

THBT parents should not tell their adopted children that they are adopted

Debatijada Open · 1

THBT animal suffering should not be an obstacle for satisfying societal needs.

Debatijada Open · 4

THW ban cosmetic surgery designed to alter one's racial appearance.

Guindon Cup (University of Ottawa) · Open_Partial_Quarters

THBT individuals with bad personal lifestyles (that influence their health) should pay more for their health insurance

Vienna Freshers · 2

THBT individuals should pass a parenting test before having children

Vienna Freshers · Open_Semis

You are a government employee who has found evidence that your state is carrying out actions you personally believe to be gravely immoral. You have no cause to believe these actions are illegal. Motion: THW leak the evidence directly to the press

UK Debate Challenge · Novice_Final

THW give primates and cetaceans the same rights to life, freedom from physical harm and freedom of movement as humans.

Cambridge IV · 1

THW subsidise sex workers visits for severely handicapped persons

Schwarzwald Cup · 3

THO prenatal testing for mental disabilities.

Canadian BP Championships (@ McMaster University) · 4

THW remove all restrictions on euthanasia (such as "hopeless and unbearable" suffering)

Cicero Toernooi · 1

Should the morning after pill be available without doctor's recipe?

Tübingen Herbst Debatten · 3

THW allow individuals to sell their non-vital organs

Newcastle IV · 1

THW, as a western liberal democracy, legalize paid surrogacy

English Cup · Open_Semis

THW eliminate any legal or ethical limitations from the field of genetic research on improving the human body.

Tournament of Champions · 4

THBT foster children should be placed into families with similar backgrounds (race, religion, etc)

KCL IV · 1

This House believes that if humanity becomes capable of interstellar travel, it should implement and enforce the "Prime Directive".

Joynt Scroll 2013 · 3

THW ban intl (cross border) commercial surrogacy

New Zealand BP Debating Championships 2013 · 1

This House Believes That important decisions about children's health should be made by medical professionals and not by their parents

WSDC 2013 · Round 1 (prepared) · World Schools Debating Championships

THW exempt academic disputes from defamation law.

De La Salle WUDC 2012 · 8

THW ban all private healthcare in favour of a comprehensive public healthcare system.

De La Salle WUDC 2012 · 9

THBT when doctors discover a patient has STDs, they should reveal that info to the patient's partner.

De La Salle WUDC 2012 · EFL_Semis