true/false: When stem cells are harvested the embryos are destroyed.
What is true?
100
the 1973 Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion.
What is Roe vs. Wade?
100
the movement that works to assist people through the dying process
What is hospice?
100
another name or term that describes the Consistent Ethic of Life
What is "seamless garment" or life is sacred from 'womb to tomb?"
200
TRUE or FALSE? When a couple uses IVF they produce more than one embryo.
What is true?
200
True or False: The Catholic church rejects the use of induced pluripotent adult stem cells.
What is false?
200
when legal fetal viability begins
What is 22 weeks?
200
the meaning of the word "euthanasia"
What is "good death?"
200
massive brain damage and minimal brain activity with no hope of improvement or recovery
What is persistent vegetative state?
300
the number of embryos usually implanted in a woman's uterus in IVF
What is 3 or 4?
300
true or false: embryonic stem cells have been used successfully to treat disease in humans
What is false.
300
the definition of fetal viability
What is the ability of the fetus to life outside of the womb with or without medical support
300
when a person other than the patient decides on the actions or lack of actions that will eventually result in the person's death
What is involuntary euthanasia?
300
true or false? The Catholic Church teaches that what is technically possible in terms of science is always morally acceptable
What is false?
400
the Church has several concerns about the use of IVF. Name one.
What is the destruction of human life when unused embryos are destroyed?
400
the Church's main opposition to stem cell research is because of this
What is the destruction of human life when embryos are destroyed after the harvesting of stem cells.
400
when brain activity is first detectable in the embryo
What is six weeks?
400
name 2 of the seven elements that are analyzed when dealing with any case of serious illness
What are 1) age and marital status 2) severity of impairment 3) prognosis 4) patient's treatment preference 5) family's treatment preference 6) severity of impaired understanding 7) degree of discomfort
400
what the Church teaches about extraordinary means of life support to preserve life
What is extraordinary means need not be taken?
500
how Catholic Church teaching sees sexual activity within marriage (2 things)
What is procreative and unitive?
500
cells with the ability to divide for indefinite periods in cutlre and give rise to specialized cells
What are stem cells?
500
when the Catholic Church teaches that abortion is permissible
What is when the child is indirectly aborted in an effort to save the mother's life?
500
explain ordinary and extraordinary means
What is ordinary are those means commonly used that can bring a likely benefit and definite hope of recovery; extraordinary are those that prolong life with no hope of proportionate benefit
500
the most important value, according to the Catholic church, in abortion decisions
What is the fundamental value of human life, even at conception?