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Unit 5 - Matters of Life
- Morality
- Absolute Morality
- When people have a
principle and they will
not differ from it
- Relative Morality
- When people have
a principle, but they
may change it due
to the situation
- Why is Life Special?
- Sanctity of life
- The concept that God
created life, so life is
special and should
not be destroyed
- Value of life
- How much a person is
worth in financial terms
- Quality of life
- Whether the person has a
comfortable and pain free life
- Fertility Treatment
- IVF
- In Vitro Fertilisation
- A method of impregnation
that doesn't involve sexual
intercourse, where the
sperm and egg meet outside
the body and as then
inserted into the womb
- Allows a couple to
have a child that the
would not have been
able to have otherwise
- It isn't natural
- The unused fertilised
eggs may be discarded,
for some people this may
be classed as murder
- Going against God's plan
- God may have given the
technology and the power
- AID
- Artificial Insemination
by Donor
- When the sperm from
an anonymous (until the
child turns 18) donor is
inserted into the vagina
- It allows a gay
couple to have a child
in a 'single-sex' home
- Which shouldn't even be a
disadvantage because
anybody who thinks gay people
shouldn't have the same rights
as straight people is stupid,
homophobic and prejugisted
- The child might be
disappointed when
they find out that their
'dad' is not actually
their real father
- AIH
- Artificial Insemination
by Husband
- When the sperm
from the woman's
husband is inserted
into the vagina
- Generally allowed
- Catholics and Judaism
see masturbation as
'spilling the seed'
- Surragacy
- When another woman
carries the child for a
couple where the
woman is infertile or has
an unsuitable womb
- May be seen
as adultery
- The surrogate mother
could become attached
to the child and not
want to give it up
- Transplant Surgery
and Blood Transfusion
- Transplants
- When organs from a
brain dead donor are
used to replace the
organs of a patient that
do not work properly
- Some people are
against being donors
because they don't want
to be buried 'incomplete'
- Blood Transfusions
- When a patient is given
extra blood from a donor
of the same blood type
- Jehovah's witnesses
believe that the life is
carried in the blood,
so completely oppose
blood transfusions
- Genetic Engineering
- Saviour siblings
- A saviour sibling is
sibling born of a
child who is very
ill, specifically to
provide stem cells
for the ill sibling
- The sibling may
feel like they are
not loved and
were only born to
save the other
child
- Human Genetic
- 'Tampering with life'
- Embryology is the
study of embryos
- Could lead to designer
babies, where hair and
eye colour, etc are chosen
- It is currently a way of
ensuring that babies are no
born with faulty genes, or
genetic inherited diseases
- Playing God
- Cloning
- Therapeutic
- When embryos are
created and used for
experimentation but
must be destroyed
after 14 days
- Reprodutive
- When an
identical
copy of an
organism is
produced
- Cloned people
don't have souls
- If someone is cloned and
ginger, does it cancel out,
do they get a soul?
- God gave free will
- Could help sick
and infertile
people
- Experimentation
- Hybrids
- When
human DNA
is injected
into an egg
from an
animal (e.g.
Cow)
- Drugs
- Tested on simulation
- Tested for poison
on rats or mice
- Cleared for
human testing
by ethical
bodies
- Tested on healthy
volunteers
- Tested on people with
the relevant illness
- Tested against other
drugs for side effects
- Animal cruelty issues
- Religious Views
- Christian
- Disposing of embryos is murder
- Life begins at conception
- Cloning makes us, 'a
product of technology,
not a gift of life'
- "You shall not kill"
- "Love your neighbour
as you love yourself"
- Muslim
- The foetus does not
receive it's soul until the
120th day of pregnancy
- "Do not take life which
Allah has made sacred"
- Only allow blood
transfusions in
extreme cases
- IVF and AIH are allowed
- God gave
us the
technology
- Buddhist
- Life begins before
conception, because
everyone is suspended
in the Samsara cycle
- The deed is not
important, but the
intention of the deed
- Fertility treatment is
the persons choice
- "Do not harm
any living thing"
the first precept