Religious attitudes to matters of life

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What is genetic engineering?
Genetic engineering is the deliberate modification of the genetic material of an organism.
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What is a savior sibling?
This is when parents already have a child that requires a donation of organs or blood to survive. A new baby is genetically engineered so that they are able to donate required material.
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What is cloning?
cloning is creating an animal or plant that is an exact copy of another.
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What is a designer baby?
This is the idea that genetic engineering could be used to produce children of the desired characteristics.
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What is embryology?
The branch of biology and medicine concerned with the study of embryos and their development.
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What is transplant surgery?
This is the use of organs taken from one person and put into another person to replace an organ that is malfunctioning or diseased.
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What is IVF?
In Vitro fertilization. When an egg is taken from a woman, fertilized, then put back, hopefully making a baby.
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What is AiD?
Artificial insemination by a donor.
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What is AiH?
Artificial insemination by husband.
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What is retrbution?
Punishment that is considered to be morally right and fully deserved.
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What is deterrence?
A theory that criminal laws are passed with well-defined punishments to discourage individual criminal defendants from becoming repeat offenders and to discourage others in society from engaging in similar criminal activity.
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What is fertility treatment?
When a baby is artificially made.
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What is retirement?
The action or fact of leaving one's job and ceasing to work.
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What is ageism?
When someone is stereotyped because of their age.
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What is passive euthanasia?
In passive euthanasia they don't directly take the patient's life, they just allow them to die.
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What is active euthanasia?
In passive euthanasia they don't directly take the patient's life, they just allow them to die.
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What is assisted suicide?
This usually refers to cases where the person who is going to die needs help to kill themselves and asks for it.
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What is a hospice?
A hospice is someone someone will stay when they know they are going to die. They provide the patient and the family with comfort and support.
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Name a legal drug.
Caffeine, tobacco.
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Name an illegal drug.
cocaine
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What is rehabilitation?
the restoration of someone to a useful place in society.
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What is crime?
A crime is a violation of the countries laws.
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What is a sin?
A sin is a violations of religious laws.
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Give a social consequence of drug taking.
You can drive people away.
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Give a mental consequence of drug taking.
Addiction.
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Give a reason why people take drugs?
peer pressure.
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What is a right?
A right is a freedom that is protected. Citizens of different countries have different rights.
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What is a responsibility?
A responsibility is a duty or something someone should do.
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What is a property crime?
Property crime is a category of crime that includes, among other crimes, burglary, larceny, theft, motor vehicle theft, arson, shoplifting, and vandalism.
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What is parole?
The release of a prisoner temporarily (for a special purpose) or permanently before the completion of a sentence, on the promise of good behavior.
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What is community service?
Unpaid work, intended to be of social use, that an offender is required to do instead of going to prison.
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What is reparation?
The making of amends for a wrong one has done, by paying money to or otherwise helping those who have been wronged.
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What is meant by the 'sanctity of life'?
sanctity of life is a principle of implied protection regarding aspects of sentient life which are said to be holy, sacred, or otherwise of such value that they are not to be violated.
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