Matters of life

Question 1

Religious teachings FOR transplant surgery.

Answer 1

Muslim - If anyone saved a life it would be as if he saved the life of the whole people.
Hindu - Relieves others from suffering.
Judaism - Donation of organs is a duty to save life.
Christian - Love your neighbour, Treat others how you would want to be treated.

Question 2

What is IVF?

What is Artificial Insemination?

What is Fertility treatment?

Answer 2

IVF - in vitro fertilisation. Sperm and egg are placed in a test tube.

Sperm is medically inserted into the vagina. Donald by husband or donor.

Medical procedure to assist an infertile couple to have a child.

Question 3

Arguments FOR IVF .

Answer 3

Be fruitiful and increased in number
Woman have a right to medical help to cure “illness”
Improves quality of life
Helps a couple to fulfil the purpose of life - reproduction - go forth and multiply.

Question 4

Arguments AGAINST IVF.

Answer 4

Goes against the natural law of creating a baby in way other than sex.
God may have another plan for you - against his will.

Question 5

Jehovah’s witness views on blood transfusion.

Answer 5

But you must not eat the meat that has its life blood still in it - Genesis 9:4
Would have there own previously donated blood transfused in an emergency.

Question 6

What is reproductive cloning and what is the problem with it?

Answer 6

Identical copies of organisms.
People believe they do not have souls.
God gave people the ability to reproduce naturally.
Affects identity of people.

Question 7

Religious teaching on when life begins.

Answer 7

For you created my inmost being; you knit me together in my mothers womb… my frame was made in the secret place. - Pslam 139:13, 15

Question 8

Blood Transfusion

Answer 8

Patient being given extra blood as part of an operation.

Question 9

Transplant surgery

Answer 9

Someone else organs being put into a patient

Question 10

Saviour Siblings

Answer 10

A sibling genetically compatable with a sick child is implanted and born to use stem cells to treat the sick child.

Question 11

VALUE of life
QUALITY of life
SANCITY of life

Answer 11

Friends, family, hobbies, what it adds to life.
Health, fulfillment.
God given so sacred. No one should damage or destroy.

Question 12

Stem Cells

Answer 12

Taken from a 4-5 day old embryo. Role in the body is yet to be determined.

Question 13

Human genetic engineering.

Answer 13

Modification of gene makeup to change features of a human.

Question 14

FOR and AGAINST human experimentation.

Answer 14

Science needs to develop.

Body should be left pure. Body is a temple of the holy spirit.