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Religion and Early Life
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AQA B Religious Studies Life issues
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Religion and Early Life
Key Terms
Conception
The egg meeting the sperm in fertilisation
Abortion
Deliberate expulsion of the foetus from the womb to terminate the pregnancy
Quality of Life
What a persons life should be like for it to be worth living
Miracle of Life
Becoming pregnant is so special, it's a miracle
Laws
1967 abortion act
28 weeks before abortion in UK
Human fertilisation and embryology act 1990
Reduced to 24 weeks
2 doctors agree
Dangers to metal/physical health
Mental/physical disabilities
Existing children may be affected
Children
Want
Carry on family
Completes family
Expression of love
Religious duty to accept the gift of life from God
Don't want
Too expensive
Not ready for responsibility
Not in a happy relationship
Medical reasons
Not right age/position to care for a child
Arguments
Pro life
Not abort for disability
Foetus should not be treated as waste
God created all life so humans must protect it
All life is sacred and deserving of protection
Abortion is murder and murder is wrong
All life has potentional
Foetus must have a voice
Life of foetus is important as mothers
Pro choice
A woman has the right to choose what happens to her body
Some foetuses are so damaged, it would be cruel to let them be borm
A woman should have an abortion if her life is at risk
Abortion if rape
Foetus is not life
Women would have abortion, except not legal
Religion
Attitudes to abortion
Islam
It is wrong but law does allow it - necessary evil
Destroys Allah's plan for life
Ensoulment after 120 days. OK before this point
OK if woman's life at risk
Christianity
Last resort
Protestants - necessary evil
Catholics - totally against
Teachings
Islam
Life is sacred
Allah has planned our lives
It is wrong to kill
Allah decides when we are born and when we die
We are all created by Allah
Christianity
10 commandments say it is wrong to kill
God planned our lives
All humans created in the image of God
All life is special
God is in charge of life, not us
Alternatives to Abortion
Keep it
Choose to risk own life
Fostering
Adoption
Right to choose
Mother
Father
Doctor
Religious Leader
Quality of Life
Have we the right to decide the quality of life of another?
Many disabled people are able to enjoy and achieve in life
Do you miss what you never had eg. sight and hearing
Life should always be given a chance and medical science could help in the future
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