Euthanasia + abortion

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  • Created by: rhiannon
  • Created on: 23-04-13 16:27
Passive Euthanasia = allows a patient to die by withdrawing medical treatment.
Active Euthanasia = take action deliberately to ed a patients life. (lethal injection)
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Voluntary Euthanasia = causing a patients death were consent is given.
Involuntary Euthanasia = the killing of of a patient who can't express if they want to die or not.
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Euthanasia - the assisted ending of someone's life, who is suffering.
Abortion = the premature expulsion of the foetus from the womb.
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The Abortion Act 1967 = allows abortion under certain circumstances.
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 = introduced a time limit of 24 weeks for an abortion.
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Abortion in 1803 was a criminal offence.
The Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 = abortion was no longer a crime if carried out in good faith.
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Involuntary Euthanasia = the killing of of a patient who can't express if they want to die or not.

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Voluntary Euthanasia = causing a patients death were consent is given.

Card 3

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Abortion = the premature expulsion of the foetus from the womb.

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Card 4

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Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990 = introduced a time limit of 24 weeks for an abortion.

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Card 5

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The Infant Life Preservation Act 1929 = abortion was no longer a crime if carried out in good faith.

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