NEW214Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Premarital Sex, Emergency Contraception
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Pro-life: government has an obligation to preserve all human life, regardless of intent, viability, or quality-of-life concerns: relating to: abortion, euthanasia and assisted suicide, death penalty, war. Pro-choice: believe that individuals have unlimited autonomy with respect to their own reproductive systems, as long as they don"t breach the autonomy of others. Relating to: celibacy and abstinence, contraception use, emergency contraception use, abortion, childbirth. Buddhism is perceived to be more relaxed towards sex as compared to christianity. Buddhist images are sometimes sexual in nature whereas this is not the case in. However, buddhism is actually very conservative towards sex: talk of sex is taboo. Sex according to the catholic church: always related to the intention of procreation, not for fun (sacred) Creating more human beings is seen as the plan of god. Therefore, being unmarried is not a good thing. Birth is not necessarily a good thing, as all lives suffer in samsara.
