Matters Of Life Flashcards
AIH
When a woman is made pregnant by the sperm of her husband, but not through a sexual relationship with him
Fertility treatment
A medical procedure to assist an infertile couple to have a child
IVF
A procedure in which eggs are removed from a woman’s ovaries and fertilised with sperm in a lab. The fertilised egg is then replaced into the woman’s uterus
AID
When a woman is made pregnant by a man other than her husband, but not through having a sexual relationship with him
Test-tube baby
Term used for a (baby) embryo created outside of the woman’s body
Surrogacy
A form of fertility treatment in which a woman’s egg is fertilised artificially by another woman’s partner or an embryo from another couple is created through IVF and then implanted into the ‘host’ woman. The woman then carries the baby throughout the pregnancy and gives it to the other couple after birth. NB: USA can pay UK cannot pay
Catholic view point
Separates baby-making from sex= unnatural and not what God designed
Hindu arguments (1 for& 1 against)
For: happiness, karma yoga, doctors dharma to let them/help them have a baby.
Against: involves destroying embryos- against ahimsa
Sanctity of life
Life is sacred as is God given
Value of life
The value of a person over and above physical value
Quality of life
A measure of fulfilment
Transplant surgery
When someone else’s organs are put into a patient
Blood transfusions
When a patient is given extra blood as part of an operation
Jehovah’s witnesses quote
‘For the life of a creature is in its blood’
Human genetic engineering
The modification of gene-makeup to change the features of a person
Embryology
The study of human embryos
Embryo
Fertilised ovum at about 12-14 days when implanted into the wall of the womb
Designer babies
Babies with gender and characteristics chosen by their parents
NB: currently illegal
Stem cell
A cell, most often taken from a 4-5 day-old embryo, whose role in the body is yet to be determined
Saviour siblings
A sibling, genetically compatible with a sick child is implanted and born to use stem cells tot treat the sick child.
Christian views on genetic engineering and embryos
Sanctity of life
You shalt not murder
Love thy neighbour as yourself
Hinduism views on genetic engineering and embryos
Ahimsa
But if genetic engineering is helping someone then is good and gives you good karma
Cloning
The scientific method by which animals and plants can be created which have exactly the same genetic makeup as the original because the DNA of the original is used
Reproductive cloning
Creation of an identical copy of a person
Therapeutic cloning
Stem cell cloning
Christian views about cloning
Love your neighbour as yourself
May ways are higher than your ways and my thoughts are higher than your thoughts
Soul?? Holy Spirit within you?
Human-animal hybrid embryo
An embryo made from human DNA and animal eggs for the purpose of experimentation
Human experimentation
Testing products, usually medicines, on paid human volunteers
Human experimentation for and against
Could save millions of lives= most loving thing (ahimsa and live your neighbour as yourself)
Or fido long with nature which is against what god created: ‘before I formed you in the womb I knew you’
‘Do you not know that your bodies are the temple of the Holy Spirit’
When does life begin
Before conception: Hindu
Conception: Catholics
14 days: after conception the embryo becomes attached to the womb
3 weeks: heart begins to beat
Quickening: first movements
Ensoulment: development of the nervous system. Muslims believe foetus gains a soul
Viability: baby could survive outside womb
Birth: Jews
