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HL GCSE Keywords
Religion and equality, justice, medical ethics
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abortion | Removing a foetus from the womb before it is able to survive, ending the pregnancy. |
| Active euthanasia | Giving someone some sort of treatment that will bring about their death |
| Adultery | A married person having sex with someone who isn’t their husband or wife. |
| Artificial Insemination | Injecting sperm (either the husband’s or donor’s) directly into a woman’s womb |
| Celibacy | Never getting married or having sex |
| Civil Partnership | The joining of a same-sex couple with the same rights and responsibilities as in a civil marriage. |
| Cloning | Creating children who are genetically identical to one parent. |
| Cohabitation | Living together in a sexual relationship without being married. |
| Contraception | Anything that aims to prevent a woman becoming pregnant. |
| Divorce | Formally ending a marriage. |
| Egg donation | Using an egg from a different woman to help a couple with fertility problems to conceive. |
| Euthanasia | Ending someone’s life to relieve their suffering, especially from an incurable, painful illness. |
| Hospice | A place where terminally ill people are cared for. |
| Immoral | Wrong. Not acceptable according to religious teachings. |
| Infertility | Not being able to have children. |
| Involuntary euthanasia | When other people make a decision that someone else should have euthanasia |
| In vitro fertilisation | An infertility treatment in which eggs and sperm are mixed in a test tube until fertilisation takes place, then a resulting embryo is transplanted into the woman’s womb to develop. |
| Marriage | The formal joining of a man and woman as husband and wife. |
| Passive euthanasia | The removal of medical treatment which will result in a persons death |
| Procreation | Having children |
| Promiscuity | Having many sexual partners |
| Voluntary euthanasia | When someone makes a free decision to be helped to dies |
| Sanctity of life | A belief that all human life is sacred, or holy. |
| Suicide | Deliberately ending your own life. |
| War | Two or more sides fighting against each other to gain victory over something such as land |
| Holy war | A war fought in the name of religion |
| A just war | A war which is declared, fought and ended in accordance with ethical principles |
| equality | Treating people equaly and with the same level of respect |
| prejudice | When you pre-judge people without knowing them |
| Discrimination | When people judge you by who you are/ what you you are and make it known |
| Racism | When people judge you by who you are |
| Sexism | When people judge you by who you are |
| Aparteid | When people were seperated due to their race |
| Proselytise | To try convering people to your religious faith |
| Missionary | Going to less fortunate places and building things to help them to show their love for God |
| Evangelism | To go and spread Jesus's word and convert them to Christianity |
| Interfaith dialogue | Looking for areas of difference and discussing the difference together to have a clearer understanding |
| Ecuminism | To try and get different types of Christians to talk to each each other |
| Forgiveness | The act of pardoning someone for something they have done |
| Sacrament of reconciliation/ Confession | The practice of private confession of sins to a priest and the receiving forgiveness |
| Penitent | Someone who feels regret for their sins and confess them |
| Penence | Paying a price for your sins |
| Wedding vows | Binding promises each partner in a couple makes to the other during a wedding ceremony |
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