TREASURING THE GIFT OF HUMAN LIFE

Cards (8)

  • The State recognizes the sanctity of family life and shall protect and strengthen the family as a basic autonomous social institution. It shall equally protect the life of the mother and the life of the unborn from conception.
  • The Philippine Supreme Court accorded ample protection to early human life from the moment of conception not after, not at implantation, not after birth because "a human being begins immediately at fertilization."
  • Human dignity
    The belief that all people hold a special value that's tied solely to their humanity, and has nothing to do with their class, race, gender, religion, abilities, or any other factor other than them being human
  • Human beings
    • Fundamentally equal because of our dignity as a person
    • Enough diverse that we must also have the originality and distinctiveness of a person
  • Important abilities of the human being
    • Ability to choose
    • Ability to follow
    • Ability to think
  • Ability to choose
    The innate ability that leads us to positive growth and happiness, contained in the space between stimulus and response
  • Ability to follow
    The natural moral law and universal principles that govern our lives and direct our lives
  • Ability to think
    We may argue we have four unique intelligences: physical, social/emotional, mental, and spiritual