Controversial Issues

Question 1

What year did the US Supreme Court legalize abortion in all 50 states?

Answer 1

1973

Question 2

What case helped legalize abortion in the US?

Answer 2

Roe v. Wade

Question 3

Abortion is any premature expulsion of a ______ ______, whether naturally spontaneous as in _________, or artificially induced

Answer 3

human fetus
miscarriage

Question 4

Right to Life Camp believes that abortion constitutes _______ of an unborn person, suggesting it is a _______ as well as an ethical matter

Answer 4

murder
legal

Question 5

Right to Choose Camp believes the right to privacy regarding health care decisions includes a _________ ________ _________, implying that __________ regulation is an infringement on this privacy

Answer 5

woman’s reproductive choices
governmental

Question 6

Values regarding abortion include:

Answer 6

• belief about when life begins
• quality of life for children who are unwanted
• concern about the mother’s life and health

Question 7

Euthanasia is derived from two Greek words ___, which means well or good, and __________ which means death

Answer 7

EU
THANATOS

Question 8

Euthanasia is the act of _________ ________ a life to relieve suffering in a painless way

Answer 8

deliberately ending

Question 9

Types of Euthanasia:
1. Active Euthanasia (similar to suicide)

Answer 9

• someone deliberately intervenes to end someone’s life
• lethal substances used

Question 10

Types of Euthanasia:
2. Passive Euthanasia

Answer 10

• person causes death by withdrawing or withholding a treatment that is necessary to maintain life

Question 11

Types of Euthanasia:
3. Non-active euthanasia

Answer 11

• Life support systems are withdrawn from the patient

Question 12

Forms of Euthanasia:
1. Voluntary Euthanasia

Answer 12

person makes a conscious decision to die painlessly and asks for help to do this

Question 13

Forms of Euthanasia:
2. Involuntary Euthanasia

Answer 13

patient cannot decide for themselves so another person will decide for them

Question 14

A renowned advocate of the immorality and the wrongfulness of euthanasia

Answer 14

J. GAY - WILLIAMS

Question 15

(J. Gay-Williams) Euthanasia contradicts nature since it is a blatant ______ of the natural inclination to ________ _____

Answer 15

violation
preserve life

Question 16

__ _____ ______ is the total commitment of doctors and nurses and other HC providers

Answer 16

TO SAVE LIVES

Question 17

“Euthanasia is immoral and therefore ought not to be legalized” was stated by

Answer 17

E. J. Hayes
P. J. Hayes
D. E. Kelly

Question 18

Suicide is derived from the Latin word _________ which means “to kill oneself”

Answer 18

SUICIDIUM

Question 19

Characteristics of death:
Incapable of being expressed in words

Answer 19

Ineffable

Question 20

Characteristics of death:
Everybody dies

Answer 20

Inescapable

Question 21

Characteristics of death:
One can never have a chance to experience death and share the encounter

Answer 21

Beyond experience

Question 22

Characteristics of death:
No such thing as untimely death

Answer 22

Personal

Question 23

Characteristics of death:
intrinsically embedded in us at the very moment when we earned the breath of life

Answer 23

Ontological

Question 24

Characteristics of death:
Does not chooses who it takes

Answer 24

Grand equalizer

Question 25

Legal and Medical Purposes Definition: Cessation of _____ assessed flat-lined total ______ ________

Answer 25

EEG cerebral function

Question 26

Legal and Medical Purposes Definition: Cessation of spontaneous _______ of the _______ system

Answer 26

function respiratory

Question 27

Legal and Medical Purposes Definition: Cessation of ________ function of the _______ system

Answer 27

Spontaneous circulatory

Question 28

Uniform Determination of Death Act (UDDA)

Answer 28

1. irreversible cessation of circulatory and respiratory functions; or 2. irreversible cessation of all functions of the entire brain, including the brain, is dead

Question 29

Only the _________ stem cells have the intrinsic potency to become a zygote or an embryo

Answer 29

Totipotent

Question 30

Scientists extract ________ stem cells from human embryos to come to terms with cure or healing of various diseases

Answer 30

Pluripotent

Question 31

Embryos that get extracted from are considered ______ or _______ which are generated from experiments outside the womb of the mother

Answer 31

extra surplus

Question 32

Removal of cell from the human embryo was initiated in ______ __, _______

Answer 32

August 9, 2001

Question 33

(J. Gay-Williams) If practiced, euthanasia will bring a lot of ________ because it endangers the preservation of life inasmuch as it leads to medical practitioners to be _____ _______

Answer 33

disadvantages less efficient

Question 34

(Hayses and Kelly) Legalized euthanasia would lessen the incentive for _______ ________

Answer 34

medical research

Question 35

What is clinical death?

Answer 35

A medical condition that precedes death rather than being actually dead

Question 36

In _______, scientists discovered the production of _______ ________ _____ _______ by using skin cells

Answer 36

2006 induced pluripotent stem cells