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Christianity & Bioethics: Confronting Clinical Issues is unavailable, but you can change that!

Medical technology and new treatments are being discovered and promoted at a much faster rate than our ability to reflect on their ethical, social, legal, and religious implications. As a result, people are often unprepared to answer the difficult questions that confront them today:—Is abortion ever justifiable?—If a loved one is suffering, can we take action that might relieve their suffering...

Isn’t there more to life than just being happy. If I could offer you a pill which would make you happy, but would also make you severely retarded so that you could never accomplish anything in life but would be a vegetable, would you take it? Most people recognize that happiness shouldn’t always be the ultimate goal of our lives. Third, under utilitarianism certain goods like persons, truthfulness, and even morality itself end up having extrinsic value and not intrinsic value. They only have value
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