Matters of life
- Created by: Adinahh
- Created on: 11-04-17 10:45
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- Matters of life
- Morality
- ABSOLUTE: has a principle that never changes eg: if don't agree with abortions even if someone's ***** still don't agree
- RELATIVE: Has a principle but it does adapt according to circumstances eg: if someone didn't agree with abortions but they'd been ***** they'd get one
- Whys life so special?
- value of life
- Value of a person over their physical value. this relates to does one life mean more than another and should it impact medical reatment
- Quality of life
- measure of fulfilment: able to live with dignity, freedom and no pain. if so do they have a good life.
- sanctity of life
- Idea that god created all life and so its sacred so we should treat it special as god created us special
- value of life
- Fertility treatments
- IVF
- Egg cells taken from mother, mixed with sperm to fertilise, they are incubated to let them grow, its then implanted back in mom and a hormone treatment to make her womb ready
- have a biological child
- multiple births
- Types?
- AID
- Same thing but fertilised with a random donor (either because husband is infertile or same sex couple)
- allows single people and homosexuals to have kids
- brings another person into the marriage and can affect someone as they don't know who there father is
- Same thing but fertilised with a random donor (either because husband is infertile or same sex couple)
- AIH
- fertilised by husband (because woman fallopian tubes blocked or husband has low sperm count)
- have a family naturally
- goes against natural procreation
- fertilised by husband (because woman fallopian tubes blocked or husband has low sperm count)
- AID
- Egg cells taken from mother, mixed with sperm to fertilise, they are incubated to let them grow, its then implanted back in mom and a hormone treatment to make her womb ready
- Surrogacy
- Its where another person carries a baby for another, the bay can be biologically theirs but they have a problem in keeping the baby ( can bring up legal issues)
- have a family
- legal issues
- Its where another person carries a baby for another, the bay can be biologically theirs but they have a problem in keeping the baby ( can bring up legal issues)
- Fertility drugs
- if youre not ovulating they trigger egg production like youre own hormones
- can have multiple births and reactions
- have a child naturally
- if youre not ovulating they trigger egg production like youre own hormones
- egg and sperm storing
- have a child naturally
- legal issues
- Buddhists: not as much pressure to have kids but allow if not for selfish reasons but some disagree with IVF if it discards embryos
- Christianity: Should have compassion. RC don't agree with IVF and AIH as it involves masturbation and some embryos end up being discarded
- Hannah had none and the lord had closed her womb
- thou shall not kill
- Hinduism: Is a duty when you're married so IVF and AIH can be done in a marriage. don't agree with AID so you don't know what caste you belong yo
- IVF
- Transplants and blood transfusions
- T=using healthy organs from donor to replace dying ones in a patient
- Shariah law supports as its getting rid of pain and saving a life
- if anyone saved a life it would as if he saved the life of the whole people
- Shariah law supports as its getting rid of pain and saving a life
- BT= when a patient is given blood as oart of an operatio
- Jesus taught to love each other so if they did it they would be being kind and following Jesus example
- love thy neighbour
- Jesus taught to love each other so if they did it they would be being kind and following Jesus example
- T=using healthy organs from donor to replace dying ones in a patient
- genetic engineering
- process of manipulating DNA to allow particular characteristics to be deleted altered or replaced so they can be passed to future generations
- gene therapy
- replacing a defective gene with a new one eg: cystic fibrosis
- xenotransplantation
- transplanting organ between species eg: pig organs have been used for humans
- Islam; he bestows children male or female according to his will
- Morality
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