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Todd and Edna have been married for three years. They have had serious personal problems: Edna is a heavy drinker, and Todd cannot keep a job. Also, they have bickered and fought constantly since their marriage. Deciding that the way to overcome their problems is to have a child, they stop practicing birth control, and Edna becomes pregnant.

As in all cases for this course, you must identify the parties and the moral issue(s) at stake, then concentrate on identifying the benefits and burdens that pertain to the parties affected in order to apply the principle of utility.

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