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True or False: Bioethics is the study of the biological sciences and how biology
provides answers to our ultimate questions about the meaning of life. - ANSWER:
False
True or False: Bioethics includes the study of the ethical stewardship of Earth (e.g.,
agriculture and the whole biosphere). - ANSWER: True
True or False: Ethics is the study of the good and the principles that should guide
one's actions - ANSWER: True
True or False: Every time we choose the good to do we become freer and we move
toward perfection and our ultimate end - ANSWER: True
True or False: The real motivation for our choices and actions is not happiness but to
do what we think will make us popular because what is popular is always good. -
ANSWER: False
True or False: Bioethics helps us to determine if a certain biomedical technology can
be used ethically. - ANSWER: True
True or False: The standard for our ethical decisions is the dignity of the human
person. - ANSWER: True
True or False: One question that we should ask ourselves when judging a technology
is: will the act of using the technology respect/do justice to or disrespect/do injustice
to the human person? - ANSWER: True
True or False: The matter, tools or technology that were used in a biomedical act are
the intention of the act not the means, object or behavior chosen to do the act. -
ANSWER: False
True or False: The natural end (formal object) of a medical act is not the intention for
using a biomedical technology but the action of using the biomedical technology. -
ANSWER: False
True or False: Bioethics is a particular aspect of the science of ethics which guides
our judgment concerning the morality of human acts in the use of biomedical
technologies. - ANSWER: True
True or False: Genital intercourse can bring about ovulation in women. - ANSWER:
False
, True or False: In this course we will use faith more than reason and religion more
than science. - ANSWER: False
True or False: In ethics, when we judge an action, our resources include reason
(natural moral law, conscience, act of the intellect), experience (memories) and
contemporary and historical experience (teachings). - ANSWER: True
True or False: An act is good, natural and in accord with our human nature when it
conforms to and is informed by right reason (prudence). - ANSWER: True
Do we know that human persons are acting in accord with human nature when they
live in personal loving communion with other human persons? - ANSWER: Yes,
human persons are designed to freely choose to love.
. Must we realize that a genetically distinct member of the human species, a unique
individual human being, is a human person? - ANSWER: Yes, to do otherwise would
be arbitrary and unscientific.
What is the correct sequence in the menstrual cycle: - ANSWER: GnRH, FSH,
Estrogen, LH, Progesterone
Luteinizing hormone is responsible for - ANSWER: Causing ovulation
Creighton Method/NFP - ANSWER: These are methods or programs used by spouses
to achieve or to avoid pregnancy, based on observations of naturally occurring signs
of fertile and infertile phases of the menstrual cycle.
NaPro Technology - ANSWER: Spouses use this therapeutic program to heal infertility
and to restore fertility health.
Intention or desired consequence of an act using NFP - ANSWER: Spouses either
want to promote fertility and conceive a child or to avoid conception and
procreation of a child
Intention or desired consequence of an act using contraception - ANSWER: Spouses
want to suspend or to eliminate fertility, thus avoiding conception and procreation
of a child.
Object or means in an act using NFP - ANSWER: To promote fertility and to conceive
a child or to avoid conception, spouses observe naturally occurring signs of fertility
during the menstrual cycle. Spouses either totally give themselves to one another in
the personal loving communion of love or abstain from the act during the fertile
phase of the cycle, allowing their bodies to speak the true language of love and the
gift of self to one another.
Object or means in an act using contraception - ANSWER: Through the use of a
pharmaceutical, chemical or physical barrier to frustrate the purpose or end of the