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What are Christian beliefs towards medical ethics?

Ellie May 11, 2017 at 08:34 1625 views 1 comments
Do christians use the same teachings to describe how they feel about medical ethics? For example: Euthanasia, suicide, abortion, animal testing for medical research etc. If not, what are the other reasons that Fundamentalist and Liberal Christians would give for being for or against these?

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Galuchat May 11, 2017 at 09:16 #69922
Ellie:Do christians use the same teachings to describe how they feel about medical ethics?


Wouldn't that be the purpose of any worldview?

On a more general level regarding medical ethics:
1) Is it ethical to prolong human life artificially (i.e., by use of life support technology)?
2) Does ethics apply to human-human interactions, human-animal interactions, or human-everything interactions?