Week 3 Journal: Beginning-of-Life Issues At the end of each module, you are chal

Week 3 Journal: Beginning-of-Life Issues At the end of each module, you are challenged to demonstrate your integrated knowledge of the week’s material by putting course resources and discussion into thoughtful conversation with your own life and the life of the world. Remember that your goals are to demonstrate that you understand and are applying course material (whose ideas you CITE parenthetically) to your own life and the world. Guidelines: Your entry should be 400-600 words. Anything less than a full, double-spaced page is probably not sufficient. I do NOT expect you to treat this reflection as an essay with a thesis statement that you defend throughout the essay. I DO expect that your reflection will consist of well-written, well-organized paragraphs with topic sentences and unifying themes. I DO expect that you will use this opportunity to dig into the ideas that have most intrigued you, bothered you, excited you, and baffled you, and to bring those ideas into conscious dialogue with your own life today and your hopes and plans for yourself and our world. I DO expect that you will use and cite course material. I DO expect that you will illustrate your points with specific examples. I will offer a few particular questions or ideas that may be helpful for you to consider in this journal assignment. You are not restricted to those themes; they are there to help you get started. Week 3: Using the individual (from Panicola), social (Catholic Social Teaching), and other useful principles and virtues, demonstrate your ability to use course material and experience to think and write about the bioethics of beginning-of-life issues such as reproductive technology, prenatal testing, and/or abortion. You cannot cover everything. Write well and deeply about a few things rather than writing in a shallow way about many things. Some of the questions that might be helpful for you to address include: What are some of the challenges of making bioethical decisions in beginning-of-life cases? What principles and virtues are most important in beginning-of-life issues? What are some of the important conflicts between principles? How might we try to resolve them? Is there anything you are thinking about more complexly or broadly than you were a week ago? Explain. What are some cases or circumstances that force you/us to think most deeply about the bioethics of beginning-of-life issues?