Assessment of the Sanctity of life principle

• Positive:

  It promotes respect for human life
• Positive:

  It encourages protection of the vulnerable
• Positive:

  It is true to the teaching of Jesus on agape and compassion
• Positive:

  The weak form recognises that moral decision-making is a complex issue and that opting for abortion may be an act of desperation
• Negative:

  It ignores modern science which states that humans are simply evolved animals
• Negative:

  It promotes an anthropomorphic view of the universe, which devalues animals, etc.
• Negative:

  Its views on abortion, even in the weak form, promote the patriarchal view of society in which women do not have equal rights to men
• Negative:

  In its strong form, it can seem unloving and lacking in compassion