Matters Of Life Flashcards
(40 cards)
Describe the two types of morality
Absolute- a person has a principle and does not move from it.
Relative- a person has a principle but will adapt in certain situations.
Define sanctity of life
God creates life,it has evolved but he takes responsibility. No person should damage or destroy life.
Define value of life
Some people- is the money being spent on a person worth the cost?
Others- is life more valuable than money?
Define quality of life
A person who is able to live with freedom, dignity and (for believers) a chance to experience God has a good quality of life.
Who was the first baby born through IVF and when?
Louise Brown 1978
Define surrogacy.
When a woman is unable to have a baby so another woman carries it for her. This can be by the woman’s egg or the surrogates egg along with the husbands sperm or a donors sperm.
What happens after a baby is born to a surrogate?
The baby is handed to the couple. After the child is born the father will put his name on the birth certificate with the mother. After 6 weeks the couple can apply for Parental Order and the surrogate mother looses all rights she had in the first 6 weeks.
What is AIH and AID?
Artificial Insemination by Husband and Artificial Insemination by Donor. Sperm collected by masturbation is inserted into the vagina.
Why are less men inclined to donate their sperm?
The child can find out their biological parent when the turn 18.
Why do some people disagree with Artificial Insemination? (7 points)
- Involves masturbation -Catholics ‘spills the seed’
- Adulatory
- Allows single unmarried women to have children
- Allows gay couples to bring up a child in a single sex home
- May upset the child to find out the father who brought them up is not their father
- Donor might not want their identity revealed
- Against Gods will ‘wrong people’ could have a child
Why do people agree with Artificial Insemination? (3 points)
- Everybody has the right to being a parent
- High chance the child would be loved because the parents have tried so hard
- God gave humans the ability to develop IVF
What are the issues related to a child born through Artificial Insemination?(3 points)
- When’s best to tell them?
- They may react badly/ feel differently
- If AID was used they may want to find their biological father
What types of morality are there? (2 marks)
Absolute morality and Relative morality
Define transplant surgery
Replacing a faulty organ with a healthy one taken from a donor usually shortly after death.
What can be donated by live donors?
Kidneys, bone marrow, part of a liver, small bowel and pancreas.
When was the first kidney transplant?
1954
Where was the first heart transplant and who carried it out?
South Africa by Christian Barnard
What have been developed to stop the body from rejecting new organs?
New drugs
What is a donor card and what happens after death if you have one?
It is a card saying you are happy for your organs to be transplanted after death. However, after death the next of kin also have to give permission for their family members organs to be given away.
What religion especially disagrees with pig valves being used as transplants?
Islam
Why would some people not want to donate their organs?
They don’t won’t to be buried ‘incomplete’ and also they may want all of their body in the afterlife.
What religion disagrees with blood transfusions and why?
Jehovah’s witnesses because they believe that life is carried in the blood therefore to take someone’s blood would be like cannibalism
What is embryology?
The study of fertilised human eggs up to 14 days
What are designer babies?
When a parent could choose the sex, hair colour, intelligence of a baby.
