Sanctity of Life
- Created by: emily tombs
- Created on: 09-04-14 20:40
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- Sanctity of Life
- The belief that human life is invaluable in itself
- Ensoulment: the moment the soul enters the body (Christians: conception)
- Quality of life: what kind of life a person will have
- Euthanasia
- Active: the intentional premature ending of someone's life
- Voluntary: at their request
- Passive: treatment is withdrawn to hasten death (inc. turning off life support)
- Involuntary: to prevent suffering without consent
- If someone is in a PVS doctors may end their life to end suffering (brain dead)
- Active: the intentional premature ending of someone's life
- Genetic engineering
- The process of artificially manipulating genes
- Ethical issues
- SoL: using embryonic cells for research kills the embryo (14 days)
- Designer babies issue
- Remove genetically inherited diseases
- Boundry becomes blurred between natural and artificial
- Reductionistic view of humanity
- Help prevent infertility
- Theraputic cloning: producing stem cells to treat diseases
- Reproductive cloning: makes a duplicate copy (Dolly the sheep)
- GM crops
- Good stewardship or interfering with God's creation?
- Environmetal concerns: "super weeds"?
- GM foods
- Health concerns?
- Ethically dubious?
- Supermarkets tend to not stock them
- Health concerns?
- Supermarkets tend to not stock them
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