Theme B

• Descartes - 'I have a body'
• Hitchens - 'I am a body'
• Pope Francis - 'It is not lawful. Never eliminate a human life or hire a hitman to solve a problem'
• Human Vitae - 'All human life is sacred'
• Genesis 1:27 - 'let us make mankind in our image, in our likeness'
• Job 1:21 - 'the Lord give and the Lord takes away'
• Genesis 1:28 - 'rule over the fish in the sea and the birds in the sky and over every living creature that moves on the ground'
• Genesis 1:28 - 'fill the earth and subdue it'
• Genesis 2:15 - 'work it and take care of it'
• Genesis - 'and God saw that it was good'
• Einstein - 'science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind'
• Jonathan Sacks - 'science asks how, religion asks why'
• Bonhoeffer - 'we are to find God in what we know, not in what we don't know'
• Exodus 20 - 'you shall not murder'
• I Corinthians - 'God's temple is sacred and you together are that temple'
• The law allows abortion if: 2 registered doctors examine the woman and agree to the abortion, her mental or physical health is at risk, existing children may suffer if another baby arrives
• Abortion must be done before 24 weeks
• Some Christians believe a foetus is human from conception, with the same rights and value to God as a child who has already been born. Therefore abortion is murder
• Isaiah 49 - 'Before I was born, the Lord chose me and appointed me to be his servant'
• Genesis 2:7 - 'breathed into his nostrils the breath of life' (human life is not valuable before birth)
• Ecclesiastes 4:3 - 'But better off are those who have never been born, who have never seen the injustice that goes on in the world'
• Pope John Paul II - 'The unborn human being's right to live is one of the inalienable human rights'
• Quote from the Methodist Church - 'Abortion may be the lesser of two evils'
• Voluntary Euthanasia - 'Assisted suicide', someone chose to end their life but needs help to commit suicide
• Involuntary Euthanasia - Other people decide it is best if someone's life ends because they cannot make that decision
• Active Euthanasia - Action is taken to bring a life to an end
• Passive Euthanasia - Decision is made to stop giving treatment, even though death will result
• Pope John Paul II - 'Euthanasia is a grave violation of the law of God'