Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Religious Studies - Ethics 1
Medical Ethics
- Abortion
- Is termination of life in the womb
- Legal up to 24 weeks
- RC - No all life if sacred (Pro-life)
- CofE - Avoid of if possible but it is the
woman's choice (Pro-Choice)
- 'Before I formed you I knew you'
- 'You shall not murder'
- 'Love thy neighbour'
- RC - Disagree with artificial methods
- Libs. - We have free will
- Suicide
- Taking your own life
- Conservs. - Disagree with Suicide
- 'The lord gave and the lord shall take away'
- Suicide is selffish
- Suicide was unholy
- 'Love thy neighbour'
- Conservs. believe in santity of Life
- Euthanasia
- Active Euthanasia is to take action to actively kill a person e.g. a injection
- Passive Euthanasia is to remove treatment so as
not to cure/ prevent the death of a person e.g.
turning off life support machine
- Voluntary Euthanasia is someone asks to die
- Involuntary Euthanasia is someone who
hasn't asked to die but another person thinks
they are acting in best interest
- Fertility Treatment
- when a infertile couple/ man or woman are medically help to conceive a baby
- IVF - In - vitro fertilization, creating an embryo in a test tube and then placing in a woman's womb
- AIH - Artificial Insemination by husband
- Liberal = Agree
- Conservatives = Agree
- AID - Artificial Insemination By Donor
- Conservatives = Disagree
- Considered Adulterous
- Liberals = Agree
- Surrogacy
- Is when a woman carries a baby for a couple/someone else
- Conservs. = Disagree
- Designer Babies
- Liberals = Agree
- Cloning
- To create a replica of a cell or a whole organism with the aim to develop cells or
another organism with the same characteristics
- 'Playing God' Is Wrong (Conservs.)
- Reproductive Cloning - Where a human or animal
could be copied to create a identical humans or
animal
- 'The Lord gave and the lord shall take away'
- 'Before I formed you, I knew you'
- Liberal do not believe that embryos are humans beings yet
- Conservs. - Say embryos are human life and must be protected
- Animal Testing
- Most Christians believe animal are less
important but on the other hand some
don't
- Most Christians agree with animals being used for medical research as
humans life is more sacred
- Humans have authority over animals
- Stewardship is responsibility of the earth and every thing in it
- Some Christian believe is a necessary evil
- 'Rule over the bird, fish and the sea'
- There is no food law