Catholic Social Teaching - Ch. 3 Test Review

Stem Cell

An unspecialized call that has the potential to become one of many specific types of cells.

Euthanasia

Any act or omission which, of itself or by intention, causes death in order to eliminate suffering.

2 major factors that lead to abortion

Breakdown of the family & freedom as the absolute value

The "D" in SLED

Degree of dependency

The "S" in SLED

Size

License

The arbitrary & uncontrolled exercise of one's personal autonomy. The "freedom" to choose & at however you want, without consequences.

Case of Roe v. Wade

1973; declared abortion a constitutional right. The court held that a woman's right to privacy includes her decision to have an abortion. This case declared abortion a constitutional right in the US.

The Principle of Double Effect

A formula used for evaluating the permissibility of an act that is morally good when the act causes an effect one is normally obliged to avoid.

Ordinary Medical Treatment

A person must always accept & allow this treatment. It includes standard medical care as well as food & water, even if the latter are administered artificially (as through a feeding tube).

Innocent

A person who is not intending you harm at the particular moment.

Abortion

Ending a pregnancy before the child is born

The "E" in SLED

Environment

Extraordinary Medical Treatment

Essentially that which attempts to do more than keep a patient comfortable & cared for in a basic manner; it includes experimental treatment & other means that can cause sickness & unnecessary affliction in one's dying days. It is morally permissible to refuse this treatment.

Human Cloning

Intrinsically evil because it reduces the human procreation to a mere manufacturing process.

True "Compassion"

Leads to sharing another's pain; it does not kill the person whose suffering we cannot bear.

The "L" in SLED

Level of development

How many cures have been attributed to adult stem cell research so far?

More than 73 cures

Is capital punishment considered an intrinsic evil?

No, because it can be used to protect the common good. Self-Defense: "Love of your own life" is an important tenet of morality, respecting the dignity of the human person includes protecting one's own life. "Innocent" menas a person who is not intending you harm at the particular moment. Protecting one's own life or the life of another when it is within our means is a moral obligation. This doesn't render a person guilty of murder. Taking the life of another is only a last resort. The death penalty is the only way to stop an unjust aggressor & protect citizens' lives, legitimate authority has the prerogative to impose the death penalty.

Does the Church oppose stem cell research?

No, because many stem cells can be obtained without the loss of life, which are known as adult stem cells. Stem cells are a vital way for the body's cells to be replenished & offer hope for the cure of certain diseases.

Reform

One of the traditional reasons for punishing someone.

Who does Project Rachel minister to?

Provides the one-on-one care of specially trained clergy, spiritual directors, & therapists to women & men who are experiencing emotional struggles after an abortion.

What is Norma McCorvey currently dedicating her life to?

She converted to Catholicism in 1998. She is now dedicating her life to reversing the infamous case that legalized abortion, Roe v. Wade.

Nonlethal Means

Sufficient to defend & protect people's safety from the aggressor. "Are more in keeping with the concrete conditions of the common good & more in conformity with the dignity of the human person."

What is the Church's stance against abortion in the situation of rape?

The child himself or herself is no less of a person than a child conceived in the most ideal situation. The Church's stance against abortion is not meant as an uncompassionate treatment of the woman who has experienced such violence, but instead a refusal to allow violence to be extended to another innocent victim, the unborn baby.

Murder

The deliberate killing of an innocent human person.

The first theme of Catholic Social Teaching

The life and dignity of the human person

Freedom

The power to choose the good for the sake of the good. Choosing the bad, then you're enslaved from freedom. Bad sounds exciting at first, but then there are bad consequences.

Personalistic Norm

The principle that seeks to affirm the unique value of each human person in the world of nature

Physician-Assisted Suicide

The process of ending one's own life with the help of a doctor rather than directly by the doctor's hand.

Incarnation

When God became human in the person of Jesus.

Is it acceptable for a Catholic politician or voter to support a law that does not immediately end all abortions but would begin to reduce the number of abortions?

Yes, because Catholics are not bound to obey such laws, & must instead work to reform them.

Is human cloning intrinsically evil?

Yes, because it reduces human procreation to a mere manufacturing process, producing new human beings in the laboratory to predetermined specifications as though they were commodities.

At its core, does reproductive cloning reduce the person to an object to be manipulated & controlled by another, even before he or she comes into existence?

Yes, because part of what makes humans unique is the unrepeatable beings with differences between them. It is greatly contrary to the personalistic norm.

If human cloning were achieved, would the "result" (aka human person) still have dignity?

Yes.

How many cures have been attributed to embryonic stem cell research so far?

Zero cures

Every person is equal in ____.

dignity

Modern values sometimes emphasize what someone ____, rather than who someone ____.

does; is

Human life begins from the time the ovum is ____.

fertilized

Unchecked personal ____ leads to an excessive individualism that ignores other people.

freedom

Just because an embryo is smaller & less developed than other persons, does not make the embryo less of a ____.

human

Every human person is made in God's ____ & likeness & has inherent dignity.

image

Extreme ____ & the belief in an absolute right to freedom can lead people to believe they are the masters of their own life & death.

individualism

We should be less driven by _____ & more driven by the _____ affected.

issues; people

Taking someone's life who is a threat to society must always be a ____ ____.

last resort

Reproductive cloning reduces the person to an ____ to be manipulated & controlled by another

object

The cases in which a mother will die as a result of a pregnancy are extremely ____.

rare

Reproductive cloning could be used to produce human beings with "____" qualities.

superior

"Before I formed you in the ____ I knew you, before you were born I dedicated you."

womb