Senior Theology
Mr. Murray
Quick Reference: Final Check List (4th Quarter- Last month)
Bioethics Journal (100 Points)
Directions to Journals: Type the following responses and answer each question in complete sentences throughout
your journal.
Entry # 1 Bioethics: What is our part?
Bioethics: Journal Entry #1 (1-1 ½ pgs typed)
Read: Good Care, Painful Choices (pgs. 9-26) Elaborate on the following prompted questions.
Prompt:
What is the relationship between being and doing in the human person?
In your limited understanding of Bioethics, what does Bioethics mean to you, and how has effected you in your life?
Besides knowledge, what else is essential for a human choice to be truly moral?
Elaborate how the human person is made in the image and likeness of God, and the consequences of this.
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Entry #2 Capital Punishment
(1-1 ½ pgs typed)
Read: Supplementary Material/ Refer to Class Discussion .Elaborate on the following prompted questions.
Bioethics: Journal Entry # 2
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What is your personal stance on this bioethical question?
Give a valid foundation of why you feel this way, and specific details to formulate your argument.
Within this journal, write about any new concepts you have learned about the methods of execution, and
determine whether the current prison system is just or needs revamped.
Entry # 3 Abortion
Bioethics: Journal Entry # 3
(1-1 ½ pgs typed) Elaborate on the following prompted questions.
Read: Good Care, Painful Choices (pgs. 61-88) Supplementary Material/ Refer to Class Discussion
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What is your personal stance on this bioethical question?
Give a valid foundation of why you feel this way, and specific details to formulate your argument.
Discuss how this question relates to faith and reason?
Does this become a question of morality or science? Defend your answers.
It will be difficult to achieve a national consensus regarding abortion until we reach a more general agreement
about certain societal values. Explain.
What type of long term affects does this have on women and men?
Entry #4 Homosexuality
Bioethics: Journal Entry # 5 (1-1 ½ pgs typed) Elaborate on the following prompted questions.
Read: Good Care, Painful Choices (pgs. 262-267 health care) Supplementary Material/ Refer to Class Discussion
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What is your personal stance on this bioethical question?
Give a valid foundation of why you feel this way, and specific details to formulate your argument.
Do you feel that our society is homophobic? -Elaborate your response.
Clearly define your thoughts on homosexual marriages, and homosexual adoption.
The American character brings together attitudes and values that both challenge and promote the concept of
universal access to health care for all people. Explain how this argument connects to the rights of civil union
marriages. Explain.
Entry #5 Genetics/Medical Ethics
Bioethics: Journal Entry # 4 (1-1 ½ pgs typed) Elaborate on the following prompted questions.
Read: Good Care, Painful Choices (pgs. 102-122,256-268) Supplementary Material/ Refer to Class Discussion
Prompt:
 What is your personal stance on this bioethical question?
 Give a valid foundation of why you feel this way, and specific details to formulate your argument.
 If cloning permits otherwise infertile couples to have genetic children of their own (DNA from father into
enucleated egg of mother), is this an acceptable means for reproduction? Explain.
 How would you respond to the charge, “By objecting to scientific progress achieved through stem-cell
technology, the Roman Catholic Church is once again demonstrating its anti-technology prejudice.”
 Can you think of any moral principles that could guide stem cell research positively?
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Identify any books, or movies that you have read or seen that relate and implicate ideas of medical ethics.
Example- John Q: John Q. Archibald is a man pushed to the limit when his young son becomes gravely
ill and the system refuses to treat him. With time running out, John puts himself on the line
to ensure that his son's life is saved when he takes the emergency room hostage.
Service Hours: Bioethical Journals will not be graded until Service Hours are turned in!