Religion and Matters of Life
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- Created on: 12-07-16 09:12
Religious Teachings
Quran:
- Muslims should donate and care for others as they may save lives
- Saving one lfe may lead to saving hundreds of lives as the original person has children, granchildren etc
The Ten Commandments- Do Not Kill:
- Wrong to kill embryos as they are alive
- IVF is wrong as embryo is outside womb
Buddhist First Precept:
- Embryos are alive- shouldnt be killed
- IVF is wrong as embryos are binned
God's Plan:
- Against IVF- Only God can create embryos
- Using IVF is ruining God's plan for your life
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Religious Teachings & Views
Hannah's womb:
- God decided that Hannah wouldnt have children, so closed her womb
- Shouldnt try IVF as this is against God's will
Religious Beliefs:
- Protestants: God gave humans the intelligence to develop IVF, so we should use it
- Judaism: Their duty to have children- agree completely
- Hinduism: Agree as it is not the parent's fault
- Buddhism: Agree completely
- Islam & Sikhism: Agree only if the embryo is made from both the mother's egg and father's sperm, otherwise it is adultery
- Catholics: IVF is wrong
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Fertility Treatments
Artifical Insemination:
- Mans's sperm (from donor-AID or hudband-AIH) is injected into a woman's womb to create a child
- Embryo is made inside the womb, not outside
- Muslims & Sikhs agree with AIH but not AID as the donor is not married to the woman
IVF:
- Egg and sperm are mixed in a dish in a lab, then implanted into the woman's womb
- Only free first time treatment with NHS up to age 42 as success rates drop after this
- In Favour:
- Help infertile couples have children
- Can avoid birth defects and inherited dieseases & help scientists prevent future diseases
- Against:
- Taking extra hormones may be dangerous
- Multiple embryos can lead to miscarriages & birth defects
- Expensive & money could be spent elsewhere
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Surrogacy
- A woman's eggs are fertilised artificially by sperm, then the embryo is implanted into another womanas the original mother's womb doesnt work
- Traditional: Eggs come from surrogate mother
- Gestational: Surrogate mother has no biological tie to embryo
- Some women may be infertile, too old or not want to change their body through pregnancy
- The surrogate mother is the legal mother until parental rights are transferred
- Risk of losing the child
- Surrogate mother can become attatched to child- right of childcare decided in court
- High percentage of birth defects
- Muslims, Sikhs & Cathlics disagree as there is a third party involved
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Saviour Siblings & Blood Transfusions
Saviour Siblings:
- Child concieved through IVF as a potential donor of ograns or cells for an existing sibling
- Can save the life of the existing sibling as they are more likely to be a match
- Usually no harm comes to donor unless donating organs
- Original child can be saved or reduce their suffering
- Saviour sibling may feel used & not be able to give consent
- Christians disagree- God's Plan
Blood transfusions:
- Taking blood from a healthy donor and giving to someone with the same blood type
- Each donation can save up to 3 lives
- Treats medical conditions (cancer, anaemia), replaces blood loss (surgery, childbirth) and improves quality of life
- Jehovah's witnesses disagree- believe that a person's soul is carried in their blood
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Designer Babies & Transplant Surgery
Designer Babies:
- Embryo's characteristics and gender cna be chosen by the parents
- Can avoid genetic diseases or faulty genes- improves quality of life
- Choosing charactistics is playing God
- Technogy could harm embryo/ mother and can affect the gene pool
- Illegal in UK
- Christians accept only if avoiding genetic diseases, not for superficial purposes
Transplant Surgery:
- Organs removed from a donor and placed into the body of another to save or improve their life
- Organs have to be transplanted on the same day or will deteriorate
- Muslims & Jews forbid mutilating the body after death
- Christians agree as can help people
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Human Experimentation & Cloning
Human Experimentation:
- Experiments done to a single or group of poeple to learn how a substance will affect them
- Done to check for dangerous side effects over many years
- Test subjects can be seriously harmed- causing cancers, amputations etc, however cannot sue company
- Hindus disagree
- Christians agree only if lives can be improved
Human Cloning:
- Therapeutic:
- Clones stem cells to treat disorders & increase life span
- Can develop tumors and some believe that it is playing God
- Reproductive:
- Creating a genetic clone of a human or animal
- Helps infertile parents have children
- Enhances aging process, can create lack of diversity
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