PERSONHOOD AND SOL

Introduction
1. Sanctity refers to something that is sacred and holy.
2. Personhood refers to the point where foetus deserves person status.
3. most Christians believe that all human life is sacred and should be protected.
4. Others believe that quality of life is more important,
  1. Peter Singer
5. A baby born without a brain may be human because it is made up of human tissue but it may not be regarded as a person.
6. Vardy and Grosh show that with personhood there are two opinions
  1. From conception, a person in a person.
  2. A person is only a person when they have qualities such as rationality, self consciousness and creativity
Biblical Views
1. Human life is the high point of creation.
2. Let us make man in our image, in our likeness and let them rule.
  1. Genesis 1:26
3. Your hands shaped me and made me ...you moulded me like clay.
  1. Job.
4. The scripture insists that God's creative activity does not commence at the moment of birth, instead, God is intimately in the hidden and mysterious process of foetal development within the womb.
  1. Wyatt
5. Each and every human has been made in the eyes of God
6. Did not he who made me in the womb make them?
  1. Isaiah
Christian Views
1. life is God given and has intrinsic sanctity, significance and worth.
  1. Anglican Church
2. God is the creator of life and he is sovereign
  1. Presbyterian Church
3. Catholic Church note
  Annotations:
  - Human life is sacred because from its beginning it involves the creative action of God and it remains forever ina special relationship with the creator who is its sole end.
4. The foetus, though enclosed in the womb of the mother, is already a human being
  1. Calvin
5. Stott believes that personhood begins at conception because "there is no point between conception and death where we can say 'then i was a person.'"
6. Aristotle believes there were different stages of development in the womb. where the embryo became a foetus in a vegative state.
7. Aquinas Believed in ensoulment, when your soul is implanted. it is 46 days for boys and 90 for girls
8. Not all Catholics believe personhood begins at conception.
  1. Garth James.
    1. The foetus is on its way to becoming an actual person and by the later stages of foetal development, may have most characteristics of personhood.
Secular Views
1. Some say that poor quality of life is not worth living
2. Freedom is the absolute requirement of self respect.
  1. Ronald Dwarkin
3. Worth of human life varies
  1. Peter Singer
4. Six stages of personhood.
  1. Syngamy.
    1. The process that takes place 24 hours after conception
  2. Implantation
    1. Implantation of the pre-embryo in the lining of the womb, occurs up to 1 week after conception
  3. Primitive Streak
    1. This forms embryonic cells roughly 14 days after conception.
  4. Brain Activity
    1. Some argue that person status should be given when the first flicker of brain activity is visible. This varies from eight to 32 weeks.
  5. Viability
    1. Refers to the point where the baby can survive outside the womb.
  6. Birth
    1. When the child has been born at full term
    2. Legislation in some countries allows abortion up to the end, but regards the deliberate killing of a baby after it has been born, as murder.
      1. Wilcockson
Conclusion
1. Despite the secular views a majority of Christians believe...
  1. Life begins at conception

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