Theology Ch. 8 Flashcards
The destruction of a child after conception but before birth.
Abortion
Any action or omission of action that assists another person in bringing about his own death.
Assisted Suicide
The belief that one is entirely independent and is responsible only to himself for his actions and the direction of his life.
Autonomy
An act by the legitimate authority of a state or nation to put a criminal to death.
Capital Punishment
The process of developing a person or animal from one somatic cell of its parent, thus it is genetically identical to that parent.
Cloning
From the Greek meaning “good death,” an action or omission of an action that, by itself or by intention, causes a person’s death in order to eliminate suffering.
Euthanasia
The principle that war may be legitimately waged, under certain specific conditions, for the protection of a nation’s rights.
Just War
The sinful killing of a human being with malice aforethought.
Murder
The action of disfiguring a part of the body, sometimes rendering it useless or wounded.
Mutilation
An attitude or behavior that leads another to do evil.
Scandal
The destruction of fertility and fruitfulness; rendering one incapable of producing offspring.
Sterilization
The act of taking one’s own life.
Suicide
