BIOETHICS AND ITS APPLICATION IN VARIOUS HEALTH CARE Flashcards
is the expulsion of a living fetus from the mother’s womb before it is viable.
Abortion
deliberately induced expulsion of a living fetus in order to save the mother from the danger of death brought on by pregnancy.
Therapeutic abortion
the expulsion of the fetus through natural or accidental causes.
Natural abortion
is defined as deliberately putting to death, in an easy, painless way, of an individual suffering from an incurable condition or disease.
Euthanasia
is a special contract of permanent union between a man and a woman entered into in accordance with the law for the establishment of conjugal and family life (Executive Order No.209, Family Code of the Philippines)
Marriage
means slow and painful death without quality of life.
Dysthanasia
is the way in which we experience and express ourselves as sexual beings
Human sexulity
is sexual activity between two people who are not married to each other.Usually, both parties are unmarried
Premarital sex
is sex occurring outside marriage, usually referring to when a married person engages in sexual activity with someone other than their marriage partner
Extramarital sex
child’s capability to live independently of its mother after it has left the womb.
Viability
defined as the voluntary prevention of conception by the positive use of artificial means which hinder the generative cells from uniting during the sexual act.
Contraception
consists of depositing a man’s semen in the vagina, cervical canal, or uterus, through the use of instruments (syringes) to bring about conception unattained or unattainable by sexual intercourse.
Artificial Insemination
Two types of Artificial Insemination
Homologous insemination(AIH)
Heterologous (AID)
in which the semen is obtained from the husband himself.
Homologous insemination(AIH)
2 METHODS OF AIH
Homologous artificial insemination
Homologous IVF and ET(in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer)
a technique used to facilitate human conception through the transfer into a woman’s vagina of the sperm previously extracted from her husband (with an AI specialist’s instruction, a woman can artificially inseminate herself by using a medical syringe; hence, this is sometimes called “do- it-yourself AI)
Homologous artificial insemination
the technique used to facilitate a human conception through in Vitro fertilization of the generative cells (sperm & ovum)of the couple – the newly conceived embryo is transferred into a wife’s uterus for gestation(hence the method is also known as embryo transfer (Shannon1987;603)
Homologous IVF and ET(in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer)