Theology Abortion/ Euthanasia/ STEM CELL test

About how many abortions take place each year

600,000

What year did the number of abortions peak

1990

Roe v Wade

 (1973) was a landmark Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion nationwide by ruling that the constitutional right to privacy protects a woman's right to choose to have an abortion.

Doe v Bolten

(1973) a cauh se the Supreme Court struck down restrictive Georgia abortion laws and broadened the definition of "health" to include physical, emotional, psychological, and familial factors, reinforcing a woman’s right to access abortion.

Planned Parenthood of Southeastern PA. v. Casey

• (1992) reaffirmed the core holding of Roe v. Wade but allowed states to impose abortion restrictions as long as they did not place an “undue burden” on a woman’s right to choose.

Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Org

(2022) overturned Roe v. Wade, ruling that the Constitution does not guarantee a right to abortion and giving individual states the power to regulate or ban abortion.

When does human life begin?

At conception

Artificial Insemination

The process of acquiring semen (usually via masturbation) and injecting it into a woman’s reproductive system.

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF)

Semen is collected and combined with eggs in a petri dish to produce several embryos. Some are implanted, the rest discarded or donated.

Reproductive Cloning

The process of cloning by destroying an embryo to harvest the stem cells

Therapeutic cloning

The process of cloning by implanting an embryo into the uterus to cause a birth

Somatic Cell Transfer

This involves taking the nucleus of a body (somatic) cell and introducing it into an egg cell (ovum) which has had its nucleus removed. The resulting embryo is then implanted into a uterus to bring it to birth.

Somatic Cell Transfer is another way of saying…

Cloning

Embryotic Stem Cells

Stem cells obtained from embryo (5-7 days old). Always results from the destruction of the fetus.

Embryotic germ cells

Cells obtained from miscarriages or abortions

Adult stem cells

Found in bone marrow, liver, epidermis, retina, skeletal muscle, intestine, brain, dental pulp, and elsewhere

Pluripotent Stem Cell

Stems cells which appear to have the potential to make any cell

Immortal Stem Cells

Stem Cells that have one embryotic stem cell line that can potentially provide an endless supply of cells

Available stem cells

embryos easily obtained from in vitro fertilization clinics

Multipotent

With a few exceptions, may be more difficult to reprogram to form other tissue types. can become other cells but not as many as pluripotent. 

Embryonic stem cells

Always morally objectionable because the human embryo must be destroyed in order to harvest its SCs

Umbilical cord and placentally derived SCs

• morally acceptable because they are not needed after delivery

Adult stem cells

morally acceptable (with consent)

Embryonic germ cells

Morally objectionable when utilizing fetal tissue from elective abortions but OK when utilizing material from a miscarriage (with consent)

Should children be viewed as a gift or a right?

Children are a gift

What is the success rate of IVF?

30%

Ectopic Pregnancy

When an embryonic human being begins to grow in the fallopian tube rather than the womb

SalpingectomY

MOST ETHICAL! removes the diseased portion of the fallopian tube that is at risk of rupturing—best option because it saves the woman without directly trying to kill the embryo.

Salpingostomy

makes an incision in the fallopian tube and removes the embryonic human, purposely killing it.

Methotrexate

drug that dissolves the tissue that nurtures the embryo and attaches it to the fallopian tube, purposely killing it.

Compare/Contrast the ethical forms of fertility treatment from the unethical types

Fertility treatment should assist, not replace, nature. Artificial means can be used to help achieve pregnancy as a direct result of marital intercourse.

What would be an argument for human life beginning at conception/fertilization?

Immediately following conception, the fertilized egg (zygote) has its own unique DNA, separate from the mother and father.

Remedies should ____ nature, not _____ it

assist ; replace

Disadvantages of embryonic stem cells

difficulty, immunogenic, tumorigenic, casualties

When are embryonic germ cells morally okay to use!

Theyre okay when utilizing from a miscarriage

IPS cells

induced pluripotent stem cells ; stem cells that are undifferentiated and can be reprogrammed

What’s the scientific name for cloning?

Somatic cell transfer

Why is reproductive cloning is wrong?

It takes out the procreation out of martial intimacy and the collaboration, it is dehumanizing to bring a new human being into the world through means which replace the marital act, each person has the right to be brought into the world as a result of marital love, PROCREATION SHOULD NOT BE REPLACED BY PRODUCTION.

What’s another name for Therapeutic Cloning?

Clone and kill cloning

What are the two fundamental values in reproductive technologies

The dignity of the child, the meaning of marriage

The Dignity of The Child

Methods that endanger the well being of the child are immoral

The Meaning of Marriage

Methods by which spouses become parents other than biological methods

Surrogacy

an arrangement often supported by a legal agreement, whereby a woman agrees to pregnancy and childbirth on behalf of another person or couple who will become the Childs parents after birth

Why does surrogacy introduce a new delemina

Because you’re also using a womans body