Key Terms For Aquinas Natural Law Theme 2ABC Euthanasia and Abortion

Question 1

Abortion

Answer 1

The deliberate ending of a pregnancy by removing a baby from the womb

Question 2

Voluntary euthanasia

Answer 2

Deliberate ending of a persons eye at their request
interior act is deliberate to end someone’s life.

Question 3

Casuistry

Answer 3

Applying key ethical principles to an ethical case (E.g. abortion)

Question 4

Sanctity of life

Answer 4

Values human life intrinsically , because they are a human regardless of whether they are sick etc
Life is holy, sacred, given by God (E.g:abortion is wrong as baby is a human life)

Question 5

Quality of life

Answer 5

Measures value of human life in terms of the quality of life experienced by the person
E.g. Someone who is terminally ill and wants to die to stop pain

Question 6

Personhood

Answer 6

Having the legal right to be treated as a person (not everyone agrees on now to define this)

Question 7

Potential

Answer 7

Something can become something else but may not yet be recognised as that thing (e.g: a caterpillar has the potential to be a butterfly)

Question 8

Ensoulment

Answer 8

Point at which the soul enters the body, not believed by everyone

Question 9

Quickening

Answer 9

When a pregnant woman first feels her baby move inside of her

Question 10

Consciousness

Answer 10

Awareness of oneself as an individual

Question 11

Viability

Answer 11

Stage at which a baby can survive outside the womb

Question 12

Birth

Answer 12

Child separated from mother and becomes a separate entity

Question 13

Pro choice

Answer 13

Supporting women’s rights to have an abortion if they choose to

Question 14

Pro rice

Answer 14

Against abortion

Question 15

Hippocratic oath

Answer 15

Professional oath taken by doctors at the start of their career

Question 16

Relational factors

Answer 16

Refers to different interpretations of the same words or terms

Question 17

Pope pius IX

Answer 17

Pope from 1846 - 78
1869 he declared that a foetus is a human from moment of conception

Question 18

Pope pius XI

Answer 18

Pope from 1922 -1939
Abortion is against the precept of God and law of nature

Question 19

Magisterium

Answer 19

The magisterium of Roman Catholicism is the teaching authority of the church itself
Only those doctrinal statements that proceed from the Roman Catholic Church can be true

Question 20

Catholic catechism

Answer 20

Sums up in book form the beliefs of the Catholic Church

Question 21

Evangelism vitae

Answer 21

Papal encyclical from pope John Paul II in 1995
“The gospel of life”
Addresses issues relating to sanctity of life, reaffirming the churches stances on ethical issues in a way considered consistent with previous church teachings