RE abortion,cloning etc
- Created by: Imogen
- Created on: 21-04-13 19:28
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- attitudes to abortion, fertility treatment,cloning, euthanasia & animals
- abortion
- RC would say unless of double effect (where the pregnancy was harming the baby or the mother) abortion is not permitted
- 'thou shall not kill'
- CofE thinks that abortion is not welcomed, but in some situations like ****, it may be kinder to abort the child
- methodists/quakers understand abortion may sometimes be the lesser of two evils
- legal :1969
- 'I knew you before you were born'
- Sanctity of Life
- Agape
- cloning
- Dolly the Sheep
- most countries ban human reproductive cloning
- the****utic cloning (reprogrammed stem cells) is not advocated by most christians as we should not 'play God' with lives
- others would say we have free will and therefore we have responsibilty in life to do what makes us happy
- RC are against cloning because t is against the sanctity of life
- fertility treatment
- imago dei
- Story of Hannah
- Types of fertility treatment
- AIH (artificial insemination by husband)
- AID(artificial insemination by donar)
- Law
- Frozen embryos can be stored for 10 years
- embryos may be experimented on for until 14 days of conception
- some christians believe that fertility treatment is good because it can bring so much joy
- Others believe that God decides when to give you a child
- RC have problems with fertility treatment as they believe life starts at conception. IVF can produce spare embryos, which can be thrown away or kept for medical research
- RC believe that having a baby is a divine right not a god-given right
- RC are opposed to AID because it is a form of adultery
- Euthanasia
- types of euthanasia
- voluntry
- wants to end their life but is too ill to do it unassisted
- involuntry
- when other people make the choice for somebody to die because they can't
- Active
- when an act is taken to end e.g a lethal dose of drugs
- Passive
- the decision to stop giving somebody medication that is keeping them alive so death is the result
- voluntry
- types of euthanasia
- abortion
- RC would say unless of double effect (where the pregnancy was harming the baby or the mother) abortion is not permitted
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