1. Liberal /Protestant view Situation ethics / Use the science/technology for good / Embryos are not human life until after 14 days Fertility treatment Jesus was a healer IVF and AIH – brings joy to couples / loving relationships/ etc AID raise issues of who is the parent – social impact upon child Genetic engineering Right to cure disease, not create ‘perfect humans’ As ‘Stewards’ must use science to improve human life Creating ‘cells’ is working with God

2. Roman Catholic View Life begins at conception / Life is sacred / Life is given and taken by God / ‘a time to be born, a time to die’ Fertility treatment All embryos research is banned – because eggs and embryos are destroyed Procreation to only take place through sexual intercourse Promote alternatives to infertility eg adoption Genetic engineering Allowed if for curing disease and not involve human embryos Destroying embryos is murder Embryos should only be created through natural means as God intends : sexual intercourse

3. Conservatives / Fundamentalists Not interfere with will of God / don’t ‘Play God’ / God decides life of all ‘You (God) have knit me together in my mother’s womb’ Genetic engineering Wrong in every situation – from conception, God decides generic make-up of each human Wrong to make the world perfect – only heaven is perfect Accept non-religious arguments against

4. Transplant surgery ‘use of organs from one person and put into another to replace an organ that is malfunctioning’ Two types of transplant From dead donor – heart, kidney …. Face From a living donor – bone marrow, single kidney

5. Transplant surgery For Life saving and life changing Uses organs that otherwise buried / burned Gives people chance to help others Brings life out of death Against Very expensive and high risk – at the expense of other operations Possibly compromise doctors in saving the life of potential donor Trade in organs from developing countries