Medical ethics

Question 1

What is IVF

Answer 1

IN VITRO FERTILISATION is when a sperm and an egg are put together in a test tube until an embryo is formed

Question 2

What is pro life

Answer 2

For life, and completely against abortion

Question 3

What is pro choice

Answer 3

When the choice to abort a foetus is the mothers only

Question 4

Define the term abortion

Answer 4

The deliberate expulsion of a foetus from the uterus

Question 5

What is AID

Answer 5

Artificial insemination by doner

Question 6

What is AIH

Answer 6

Artificial insemination by husband

Question 7

Define the term dominion

Answer 7

Having authority over something (to rule over)

Question 8

What is stewerdship

Answer 8

To look after something or take care of it

Question 9

What is suicide

Answer 9

The intentional ending of your own life

Question 10

What is the definition of euthanasia

Answer 10

Helping somebody who has a terminal illness die an easy and merciful death

Question 11

Name two purposes of sex for Christians

Answer 11

To create children (old fashioned)

Binds the couple together s they become ‘one flesh’

Question 12

State a quote relating to adultery

Answer 12

Do not commit adultery

Question 13

Name three methods of contraception

Answer 13

Condoms
Morning after pill
Cool

Question 14

Define contraception

Answer 14

The deliberate prevention of pregnancy

Question 15

What is procreation

Answer 15

That sex is only for creating children

Question 16

Name two reasons for contraception and two against

Answer 16

For

People may not want to have children
Stop teenage pregnancies

Against
Christians believe that it defeats the whole purpose of sex and stops sex being special
Not always effective

Question 17

What is chastity

Answer 17

Vowing not to have Dec until marriage

Question 18

What is abstinence

Answer 18

To stop doing something you enjoy

Question 19

What is celibacy

Answer 19

Vowing not to ever have sex (nuns and monks)

Question 20

What is an ectopic pregnancy

Answer 20

Where the foetus grows in the Fallopian tubes rather that in the womb

Question 21

Name two reasons why the Church of England might consider abortion

Answer 21

The child would have a low quality of life

The mother was raped

Question 22

What is the double effect

Answer 22

Where doing something morally good has a morally bad side effect. E.g saving the mothers life but aborting the foetus

Question 23

When is abortion allowed up to

Answer 23

24 weeks

Question 24

What do the Roman Catholics think about abortion

Answer 24

That is is murder because we were all made in gods image

Question 25

Name 2 things that Christians believe about fertility treatment

Answer 25

That it should be encourage because it brings so much happiness to people That it is bad because God decides whether people should have children or not, 'God closed Hannah's womb'

Question 26

What is cloning

Answer 26

The making of a replica

Question 27

What is therapeutic cloning

Answer 27

Where single cells are taken from a person or an embryo and reprogrammed to create stem cells that can be used for medical treatments

Question 28

What is reproductive cloning

Answer 28

Cloning which creates offspring

Question 29

Why are some Christians against cloning

Answer 29

Because it is unnatural and tampering with life -'we should not play God'

Question 30

What is a sin

Answer 30

An act that goes against gods wishes

Question 31

What is meant by suffering

Answer 31

Physical, mental or spiritual pain

Question 32

Why nigh Christians be against suicide

Answer 32

God chooses when people are born and when they die 'The body is a temple of the Holy Spirit' meaning that the body should be treated as a place where God lives and should be respected

Question 33

What is voluntary euthanasia

Answer 33

When somebody asks to end their life but is unable to commit suicide without help

Question 34

What is involuntary euthanasia

Answer 34

When other people decide that it would be best to end somebody's life

Question 35

What is active euthanasia

Answer 35

When an action is taken to bring a life to an end, eg a lethal dose of drugs

Question 36

What is passive euthanasia

Answer 36

When a decision is made to stop any treatment in order to let the person die, eg stop medication

Question 37

Name two reasons why animal testing may be used

Answer 37

For cosmetics | For new medicine

Question 38

Why would some Christians be against animal testing

Answer 38

Because God told Noah to save the animals, meaning that hey are important and should not be hurt

Question 39

What is meant by the term 'sanctity of life'

Answer 39

The belief that there is something special or sacred about life

Question 40

What do humanist think about abortion

Answer 40

They believe that the further along the pregnancy, the more unacceptable it is to carry out an abortion because the foetus becomes more human like. Meaning that they deserve human rights

Question 41

What do humanist think about fertility treatment

Answer 41

They think that it is good because it would improve people's quality of life

Question 42

What do humanist think about cloning

Answer 42

They think that it is a slippery slope because it could get out of hand and we could soon be creating our own babies

Question 43

What do humanist think about suicide and euthanasia

Answer 43

They think that we should consider the persons quality of life rather than the right to life and support them in their decision

Question 44

What do humanist think about animal testing

Answer 44

They be olive that Charles Darwins theory of evolution shows how some animals are so alike to humans,back their is a very fine line between testing on animals and testing in humans