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abortion
The removal of a foetus from the womb before it can survive
euthanasia
the act of painlessly killing a suffering person or animal; mercy killing
culture of life
A term used to describe a society that holds all life sacred, from conception to natural death. Such societies build social structures that protect and defend human life in all its stages.
Culture of death
A term used to describe a society that doesn't hold human life sacred in all its stages
conscience
an inner feeling or voice viewed as acting as a guide to the rightness or wrongness of one's behavior.
Excommunication
A severe penalty that results from grave sin against Church law
artificial means of conception
The ability to create a new human life artificially, using means such as in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, or surrogate parenting.
Defending the Unborn Person's Right to Life
Because abortion is a serious sin against the moral law, society has a responsibility to prevent this tragedy. We must work to change society's moral acceptance of abortion and overturn the laws that make it legal
suicide
Deliberately taking one's own life. It is a serious violation of the Fifth Commandment for it is God's will that we preserve our own lives.
Catholic teaching says that the situations in which the death penalty can be used are "rare, if not practically non-existent." Wouldn't cases of heinous crimes, such as 9/11, be examples of the "rare" cases?
"The test of whether the death penalty can be used is whether society has alternative ways to protect itself, not how terrible the crime was. Life in prison without parole provides a non-lethal alternative to the death penalty. We can't know whether God has a purpose for a person's life, even one who has committed a terrible crime and must spend his or her life behind bars.
Does life in prison without parole really work or are those convicted sometimes released?Life in prison without parole means that the convicted person is not eligible for parole and cannot be released.I understand that in the past innocent people were sentenced to death, but now that DNA is available, isn't this avoidable?DNA evidence only exists in about 5-10% of criminal cases (10-15% of death penalty cases). Where it is available, it is still subject to contamination and human error. The risk of an erroneous conviction is still significant [since 1973, 139 inmates on death row have been found innocent].The shift from toleration of the death penalty under the old law to increasing discouragement of it over time under the Mew Law can be attributed to what?Jesus' teaching on mercy and forgiveness, advances in criminal justice in modern society, hope for criminals' repentance and reformA society with a culture of life is one thatHolds all human life sacred from conception to natural death.Three elements that determine the morality of any human actionObject, intention, and circumstances.