Sentences with phrase «of respect for human life»

And as Margaret Somerville, the founding director of the Centre for Medicine, Ethics and Law at McGill University says, the debate comes down to a direct conflict between the value of respect for human life, on the one hand, and individuals» rights to autonomy and self determination — the value of «choice» — on the other.

Similarly, the status of the human embryo, and the value placed upon it, have come under increasing scrutiny over the past decades, and even since DP in 2008 it has become increasingly normal to assume that it is morally acceptable to destroy embryos or to experiment upon them.12 The increasing sense of a loss of respect for human life in its earliest stages is linked to the abandonment of male - female lifelong marriage as the normal structure in which human life begins and is cherished.13 DP emphasises that «human procreation is a personal act of a husband and wife, which is not capable of substitution» (DP 16).

But the mosque's cleric, Imam Mohamed Magid, said the Prophet Muhammad, speaking through the Quran, prohibits violence and a lack of respect for human life.

Running through Christianity is a consistent ethic of respect for human life and dignity, and both parties fail in this regard.

Not exact matches

He has accused the state of breaching two clauses of the European Convention on Human Rights, one which prohibits «inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment», and one which guarantees the right of respect for «private and family life» and «correspondence».

The newspaper also reported that like other heroes, Morris had never talked much about his military service, «out of respect for the gravity of taking a human life.»

The UN Human Rights Committee, which regularly reviews whether states are living up to their obligations under the binding International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, today made more than a dozen recommendations for fundamental changes in Canadian law and policy in respect to the treatment of First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.

The renegotiation process has to be transparent and participatory and any NAFTA replacement must ensure respect for human rights, improve peoples» lives and livelihoods, and protect the environment in all three countries,» said Ronald Cameron, coordinator of the Réseau québécois sur l'intégration continentale.

Instead, we have done great harm to our sense of community and responsibility and respect for human life.

Gianna: The Catholic Healthcare Center for Women» named after Saint Gianna Beretta Molla, an Italian doctor, wife, and mother, who, when faced with complications while pregnant, refused to have an abortion at great risk to her own life» provides women gynecological and obstetric care that is fully committed to the USCCB's Directives for Catholic Healthcare Services and fully respects both the dignity of women and the sanctity of human life.

In language that hinted at what was to come, it declared: «We believe that planned parenthood, practiced with respect for human life, fulfills rather than violates the will of God....

The archbishop also asserted that laws are based upon certain principles: «the pursuit of the common good through respect for the natural law, the dignity of the human person, the inviolability of innocent life from conception to natural death, the sanctity of marriage, justice for the poor, protection of minors, and so on.»

Ruether concludes: «The true struggle of religion in the sixteenth century and still today is not between the true god of the Bible and «paganism» but between the warlord gods of human sacrifice in both religions and the god of life who calls for compassion and mutual respect between peoples, a god revealed in Christ but also known in Quetzalcoatl.»

Each situation involves real, living human beings and I believe we should respect them by at least attempting to grasp the reality of their world instead or reaching for the nearest category to slap across their situation.

To help direct the congregation's reflection, he offered two principles: «(a) unconditional respect for the human being as a person from conception to natural death; (b) respect for the originality of the transmission of human life through the acts proper to spouses.»

And socially conservative groups were quick to praise Ryan's selection, with the president of National Right to Life saying that «Ryan has a deep, abiding respect for all human life, including unborn children and their mothers, the disabled and the elderly.&raLife saying that «Ryan has a deep, abiding respect for all human life, including unborn children and their mothers, the disabled and the elderly.&ralife, including unborn children and their mothers, the disabled and the elderly.»

When in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation — We hold these truths to be self - evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

A global ethic demands that every human being be treated humanely, that a culture of non-violence and respect for life be found, that a culture of solidarity and a just economic order be submitted, that truth and tolerance be instigated and that a culture of equal rights and partnership between men and women be found.

They do not have respect for the dignity of human life and the only thing they respect is brutal force.

They were criminalized for good reason, as things repugnant to respect for the God - given sanctity of human life, and they ought to remain criminal.

A society growing toward greater maternal support and respect for the dignity of all human life needs these narratives, even the ones that do not end in remorse.

If valid, this view rightly gives Christians and others hope that respect for the integrity of creation is less alien to human life, and more attainable, than circumstances have often led us to believe.

This combined with her respect for the human mind as an essential ingredient of a genuinely human life gives her an affinity with Augustine or, better yet, Gregory of Nyssa.

While I was reading Vorgrimler, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith issued its «Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation.

First, it can not be assumed that the Christian faith is taught in such a way as to emphasize love of neighbor (all neighbors) and respect for human life.

Other issues fought for are democracy, life within a community, the respect and recognition of the basic human rights of immigrants and refugees.

But on the other hand, when in talking about sin one talks only of such sins, it is so easily forgotten that in a way it may be all right, humanly speaking, with respect to all such things up to a certain point, and yet the whole life may be sin, the well - known kind of sin: glittering vices, willfulness, which either spiritlessly or impudently continues to be or wills to be unaware in what an infinitely deeper sense a human self is morally under obligation to God with respect to every most secret wish and thought, with respect to quickness in comprehending and readiness to follow every hint of God as to what His will is for this self.

Respecting the sanctity of human life at every stage of development and decline, securing the integrity of marriage and family life, protecting the disabled and vulnerable, caring for the marginalized and imprisoned» these are among the mandates that are bringing, and must increasingly bring, Evangelicals and Catholics together.

Added to the reasons already given to show how homosexual acts violate the nuptial meaning of the body and the unity of the human person as a bodily being, respect for the health and life of homosexual males ought to make one realize that anal sex, the characteristic kind of homosexual male behavior, is morally bad.

Otherwise, of course, theoreticians and philosophers even today would have much greater chances in this respect than the «little man» who, to all appearances, dull and untouched by the absolute issues of human life, seems to live a day - to - day biological struggle for existence.

Does the near universal proscription against cannibalism promote respect for the unique value of human life — that continues even beyond life?

«This responsibility for God's earth means that human beings, endowed with intelligence, must respect the laws of nature and the delicate equilibria existing between the creatures of this world... The laws found in the Bible dwell on relationships, not only among individuals but also with other living beings... by their mere existence they bless him and give him glory»... «the Lord rejoices in all his works» (Ps 104:31).

[23] See Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation (1987) 1,2: AAS 80 (1988); Catechism of the Catholic Church, no. 2274.

It may seem that to emphasize the pervasive operation of the Holy Spirit, as well as to stress the Spirit's focal action in the life of Jesus and its consequences, will in the end reduce men and women to mere automatons used by God with no respect for their freedom, their dignity, and their own responsible decisions, without any personal or social human contribution to the process.

Orwell thinks that from Shakespeare's writings it would be difficult to know that he had any religion» whereas in fact the placing of truth in the mouths of babes is one aspect of the Christian respect for all human life; that same profound feeling is what inspires us to protest loudly when health authorities take a mental defective off dialysis machine because they consider his «quality of life» too low, in defiance of Christ's words in the Sermon on the Mount.

Our moral, religious, and political traditions are united in their respect for the dignity of human life.

This reassessment should pay respect to the empirical reality, that is, on the one hand, the unmitigated disaster of socialism everywhere» economically, politically, and in a monstrous aggregate of human suffering» and, on the other hand, the relative capacity of democratic capitalism to lift large masses of people from abject poverty to decent levels of material life and to provide political regimes that establish respect for elementary human rights.

10 Certain recent discussions of environmental ethics, dealing with «respect for nature» (where nature is not necessarily limited to the realm of living things), reflect some affinities with Hall's ideas on «deference» and seem to pose a challenge to my suggestion that the pursuit of power over nature should be criticized primarily in terms of its negative effects on human values and experiences.

Schweitzer holds that the ethic of respect for life is based on the human will to live and that it follows we should respect the will to live wherever it exists.

The 1949 Medical Declaration of Geneva added to the Hippocratic Oath the explicit line, «I will maintain the utmost respect for human life from the time of its conception.»

They are denying hundreds of students health insurance out of a respect for a sacredness of human life.

The Alliance of Pro-Life Students (APS) was created in 2012 to help overcome these obstacles by building and supporting university pro-life communities united by a lasting and profound respect for human life from fertilisation to natural death.

Experimental procedures can be licit if they «respect the life and integrity of the embryo and do not involve disproportionate risks for it, but rather are directed to its healing, the improvement of its condition of health, or its individual survival»; but the mere «use of human embryos or fetuses as an object of experimentation» is «a crime against their dignity as human beings.»

Many of the elements basic to a Christian way of life were first basic to a Jewish way of life: a reverence for the Scriptures; a sense of the sacred; respect for the law; humility before the transcendent; the cherishing of the human capacity for reflection and choice; the sharp taste of the existing (as distinct from non-existing), and of being (as opposed to nonbeing), and therefore of the blessed contingency of this created world; the practice of compassion; the ideal of friendship with God and of «walking with God»; the habit of prayer; and a sense of the presence of God during the activities of every day — all these are habits of life that Christians share with Jews and have learned from Judaism.

The Vatican in its Instruction on Respect for Human Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day offers an answer: the human being must be respected as a person from the first instance of his or her existence as a fertilizedHuman Life in Its Origin and on the Dignity of Procreation: Replies to Certain Questions of the Day offers an answer: the human being must be respected as a person from the first instance of his or her existence as a fertilizedhuman being must be respected as a person from the first instance of his or her existence as a fertilized egg.

According to the Rosary on the Coast's website, Catholics in Poland «responded to what they sense as a movement of the Holy Spirit to gather around the coasts of their nations and pray to Jesus, the Divine Mercy, for a renewal of faith and respect for human life through the powerful intercession of Our Lady of the Rosary».

The 1985 Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith Instruction on Respect for Human Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rHuman Life states, «By virtue of its substantial union with a spiritual soul, the human body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman body can not be... evaluated in the same way as the body of animals... The natural moral law expresses and lays down the purposes, rights and duties which are based upon the bodily and spiritual nature of the human person.&rhuman person.»

Such an attitude undermines the Church's teaching about the crucial importance for the Christian life of, for example, participating in Sunday Mass or respecting the dignity of human sexuality by not cohabiting before marriage.

I'm sure it's not going to resolve anything overnight, but I believe if we push, through the use of media and psychology the idea that the life of our fellow human deserves respect above anything else it will reduce gunfire in general and perhaps the necessity for guns.

Portions of the Bible that are used, demand respect for human life and justice, not imposition of religious doctrine.