Test Articles 27-30 Flashcards
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Seamless Garment/Consistent Ethic of Life
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- Written by Joseph Cardinal Bernardin
- Speaks on the Prolife movement and how life should be respected from conception to natural death
- Seamless garment because there shouldn’t be a visible line of where life ends; life cannot be broken
- Cannot cut the threads that hold a life together
- Seamless garment because there shouldn’t be a visible line of where life ends; life cannot be broken
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Roe vs Wade
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- 1973
- legalized abortions on demand throughout the full nine months of pregnancy
- States can not limit a woman’s right to an abortion only to the first 3 months
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Doe vs Bolton
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- broadly defined the “health” exception for abortions
- includes the following factors: the physical, emotional, psychological, familial, and the women’s age as relevant to the well-being of the mother
- grants the abortionist final say over what qualified as a legal abortion
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Unborn Victims of Violence Act
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- 2004
- Humans carried in the womb “at any stage of development” who are injured or killed during the commission of certain violent federal crimes are fully recognized as human victims
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Gospel of Life
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- Saint John Paul II
- Social Encyclical
- Spoke on the legalization of abortion and euthanasia
- Contrasts the cultures of life and death (causes of culture of death)
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Culture of Life
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- A term used to describe a society that holds all life sacred, from conception to natural death
- Such societies build social structures that protect and defend human life in all its stages
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Culture of Death
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- A term used to describe a society that does not hold human life sacred in all its stages
- Such a society creates structures of sin that allow human life to be attacked when it is most vulnerable
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Freedom
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- Cause of culture of death
- Modern people embrace a distorted understanding of human people
- Feel as though people have the right to pursue personal goals and desires without hindrances
- Human freedom is a gift, not an absolute right
- Responsibility to choose right over wrong (life over death)
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Materialism
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- Cause of culture of death
- Occurs when God is not the center of our lives
- We become preoccupied with material things
- Leads to selfishness and the pursuit of pleasure as a primary life goal
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Erosion of Conscience
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- Underlies a culture of death
- We should respect our conscience, not erode it with evil
- Makes it increasingly difficult to distinguish between good and evil
- Especially when involved w/ sanctity of human life
- Ex: State making abortion legal, which led to many people feeling that abortion is okay
- Key cause in the legalization of abortion
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Abortion
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- deliberate termination of a pregnancy by killing the unborn child
- Igrave sin and a crime against human life
- Direct: Performed to intentionally end a pregnancy and life of an unborn child
- Indirect: Death of an unborn child that is not directly caused by abortion
- Ex: A critically ill mother who requires a medical procedure that is not an abortion, but indirectly results in the death of her child
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Principle of Double Effect
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- Thomas Aquinas
- Teaching on homicidal self-defense
- advocated for evaluating the permissibility of acting when one’s otherwise legitimate (good) act (for example, relieving a terminally ill patient’s pain) may also cause an effect one would normally be obliged to avoid (sedation and a slightly shortened life)
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What is the “slippery slope” argument of ethics? Provide an example
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- If you allow one thing, you have to allow other things
- Ex: if you allow abortions for people who were raped, you will eventually have to allow them for everyone
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Drawing upon Joseph Cardinal Bernadin’s speech, “Consistent Ethic of Life,” what does it mean to be pro-life from a Catholic perspective?
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- To be pro-life from a Catholic perspective means to support life at all stages, from conception to natural death
- Life begins when the child is conceived
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What social structures support a culture of life?
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Social Structures that support a culture of life:
- Lucy’s Hearth: aiding women and children affected by domestic violence
- Project Rachel: provide spiritual and non-spiritual guidance to women who have had abortions
- Visiting Nurses: Visit with patients of all ages who are usually dying, spend time with them
