Medical Ethics Key Word

Removing the foetus from the womb before it is able to survive; ending a pregnancy

Injecting sperm (a husband's or donor's) directly into a woman's womb

Creating Children who are genetically identical to a parent

Using an egg from a different woman to help a couple with a fertility problem to concieve

Ending someone's life to relieve their suffering. especially from an incurable, painful illness

Wrong; not acceptable according to religious teachings

Not being able to have children

An infertility treatment in which eggs and sperm are mixed in a test tube until fertilisation takes place, then a resulting embryo is transplanted into the woman's womb to develop

A belief that all human life is sacred or holy so humans don't have the righ to choose when a life ends

deliberatly ending your own life

Entitled to religious respect by association with the devine

Highly esteemed for a spiritual quality

The point at which an unborn child recieves its soul

Human life should be valued from conception to natural death

Women should have the choice about when it is acceptable to end life

Intentially taking one's life

A place where the terminally ill are offered palliative care before death