Codes | Sub-categories | Main categories |
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Potential baby | A potential child | Individuals' views on cryopreserved embryos |
Cells are beginning of life | ||
Cell lump | Not a child | |
Not a baby | ||
Missing a heart | ||
Not all embryos become children | ||
Not like any cell | Special | |
Higher value | ||
Moral uncertainty | Moral obligations | |
A moral limit | ||
Does not feel natural | ||
Help others | Donation can benefit sick people | General view on donation of cryopreserved embryos |
Help sick | ||
Better care | ||
Good purposes | ||
Ability to support patients | ||
Gives hope | Donors' feelings | |
It feels good to help others | ||
Regret | ||
Unethical experiments | Ethics in donation | |
Ethically okay | ||
Unethical to enhance humans | ||
Support good causes | Values in donation | |
Want to do good | ||
Help as many as possible | Maximise utility in donation | |
Help those with highest needs | ||
Benefit the most people | ||
Prioritise severe diseases | Prioritisation in donation | |
Not for self-inflicted conditions | ||
Prioritise public diseases | ||
Not in the beauty industry | ||
Only for diseases with no cure | ||
Relieve health care system | Benefit for society | |
Support health care professionals | ||
Contribute to research | ||
Contribute to society | ||
Reducing costs for health care | ||
Better to use then throw away | Positive to donate to PD | Attitudes regarding donating cryopreserved embryos for cell-based treatment in PD |
Cryopreserved embryos can result in something positive | ||
Someone close with PD | ||
If no more children | ||
Contribute to Parkinson treatment | ||
Finding new treatment alternatives | ||
Parkinson patients suffer | ||
Wrong to use embryos for PD | Negative to donate to PD | |
Wrong to do research on embryos | ||
Taking a life | ||
Wrong to use embryos in medications | ||
No alternative is okay | ||
Mixed feelings | Unsure to donate to PD | |
May be needing the embryos | ||
Ambivalent | ||
Different opinions | ||
Need more information | ||
Have not seen PD upfront | ||
Not ready to make a decision | ||
Need more knowledge | ||
Feels weird | ||
Trade-offs | Balancing benefits and risks | |
Increased quality of life | ||
Important with low risks and high benefit | ||
Safe treatment | ||
Losing control | Not losing control | Conditions for donating |
Pharmaceutical companies | ||
Taking care of embryos | ||
In safe hands | ||
Can create mistrust | Being asked to donate | |
Instead of throwing them away | ||
Asking when no longer needed | ||
Asking anytime | ||
Asking when storage time is over | ||
It should be up to the couple to donate | Autonomy | |
The use of the embryo should be up to the couple | ||
The couples need to feel that they make the right decision | ||
Only want to donate to institutes with good values | ||
Couples need to know where the embryo will go | Informed consent | |
It should be up to the researchers to decide once given informed consent | ||
Research on embryos requires informed consent | ||
Informed on what disease the embryo will go to | ||
Not necessary with informed consent in medical treatment | ||
Informing the donor even if the embryo is not used | ||
Important with reflection | Reflection | |
Weighing different options | ||
Proper reimbursement to donors | Reimbursement | |
Not only for rich people | Equality | |
Transparency to public | Transparency | |
Not for healthy individuals | Future development | Fears |
Lack of autonomy | ||
Use of donated embryos in other disease areas | ||
Moral obligations | ||
Need to limit misconduct of donated embryos | Misconduct of donated embryos | |
Being utilized by pharmaceutical companies | ||
Ignoring the purpose stated in donors' information | ||
Not supporting donation for some purposes | ||
Not for human enhancement | ||
Researchers can get good attention from society | Researchers own interests | |
Researchers may have their own interests | ||
Big profit | Pharmaceutical companies' interests | |
Wrong with to big profit margins | ||
It does not matter where the profit goes | ||
Accepting profit when necessary | ||
Profit may be the main interest | ||
Okay with some profit | ||
Profit should go to development of new medicines | ||
Not okay that pharmaceutical companies make profit on embryos |