Sentences with phrase «undermining human dignity»

The solution, it would seem, is to sidestep the argument altogether by seeking means of advancing medical research without threatening human life or undermining human dignity.

It is prohibited to commit acts leading to disorder and division, affecting the security of the state and its public relations, or undermining human dignity and rights.

The Catholic Church, drawing on natural law theology, has condemned pornography as undermining human dignity and subverting the common social good.

By telling people that they can not obey God in this area, the bishops undermine the human dignity of the working classes, and degrade their morality further.

The suit filed on behalf of SERAP by its deputy director Timothy Adewale read in part: «The Applicant argues that allegations of corruption and mismanagement of N388.304 billion London Paris Club loan refunds by states have undermined the human dignity of workers and pensioners facing difficult circumstances that deprive them of their capacity to fully realize their internationally recognized economic and social rights.»

Not exact matches

The judicial treatment of filicide among families with disabilities is also slowly undermining our public conception of human dignity.

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.

They want to convey a message that assisted suicide would «undermine the dignity of human life and put vulnerable lives at risk».

For example, while Joy focuses on direct threats to human survival (such as bioterrorism), Kass, who is chairman of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, is more concerned about subtle ways in which our quest for technological mastery could undermine the foundations of human dignity.

Most importantly, inequality, global injustice, and corruption are undermining our ethical values, personal dignity and human rights.

The Paper therefore proposes that the organising principle of our effort should be the raising up of human dignity via three overarching objectives: ensuring energy access for all; ensuring that we develop in a manner that does not undermine the essential functioning of the Earth system; ensuring that our societies are adequately equipped to withstand the risks and dangers that come from all the vagaries of climate, whatever their cause may be.

If a person you love is able to enhance their quality of life for longer, or able to exercise the same kind of autonomy that people able to choose when to die can exercise, then the prohibition appeared cruel and undermining of human dignity.

There was discussion of how killer robots could undermine the fundamental principle of human dignity because they could take human life without respecting it.

That's why it's a hard problem that undermines health and human dignity.