Sexuality and

Human
Reproduction
Josephine D. Lorica
Content Layout
• Human Sexuality
• Issue on Human Sexuality
• Homosexuality
• Rape
• Abortion

• Marriage
• Issues on Marriage
• Destruction of Life
• Inviolability of Human Life
• Nurses’ Ethic0-moral responsibility
Sexual Ethics (Encyclopedia.com, n.d.)
• is concerned with human • considers standards for intervention
bodily health, it has an interest in physical processes, rights of
in the way health is influenced individuals to self-determination,
by and contributes to sexual ideals for human flourishing, and the
functioning importance of social context for the
interpretation and regulation of sexual
behavior
Human Sexuality
• Is normal and natural

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• is a complex term that includes the elements of

thoughts, sexual self-concept, values, anatomy,
physiology, reproduction, affective responses,
intentional directedness, and behaviors.
Norms(Encyclopedia.com, n.d.)

• masturbation (physicians believed it would lead to insanity),

• homosexuality (newly identified with perversions that
medicine must diagnose and treat),
• contraception (considered unhealthy because it fostered
sexual excess and loss of physical power), and
• gender roles (promoted on the basis of medical
assessments of women's capacity for sexual desire).
Sexual Ethics of St. Augustine
(Encyclopedia.com, n.d.)
• the norm of heterosexual
procreative sex within
marriage.
 Issues on Human Sexuality
• Homosexuality / Different • Rape
Sexual Orientation

• Abortion
Marriage (E.O. #209 – Family Code of
the Philippines)
• Marriage is a special contract of permanent
union between a man and a woman entered
into in accordance with law for the
establishment of conjugal and family life.
• It is the foundation of the family and an
inviolable social institution whose nature,
consequences, and incidents are governed by
law and not subject to stipulation, except that
marriage settlements may fix the property
relations during the marriage within the limits
provided by this Code. (52a)
Ethical Issues on Marriage
• Sex Outside marriage • Contraception

• Artificial Reproduction
• Artificial Insemination
• In-Vitro Fertilization
• Surrogate Motherhood
 Destruction of
Life (Criminal
law Philippines,
2010)
Criminal Law (Art. 246-261)

Crimes Against Persons

Sec. 1 – Parricide, Murder,

Homicide

Sec 2 – Infanticide and

Abortion
 Evangelium Vitae –
“The Gospel of Life”
- An Encyclical letter
addressed by Pope
Inviolability of John Paul to the all
Human Life people of goodwill
(1987)
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 • The incomparable worth of the human person
The Birth of a Child which is proclaimed as
• Man is called to a fullness of life which far exceeds the
joyful news: "I bring you good news of a
great joy which will come to all the people;
for to you is born this day in the city of
David a Saviour, who is. Christ the Lord"
(Lk 2:10-11). The source of this "great joy"
is the Birth of the Saviour; but Christmas
also reveals the full meaning of every human
birth, and the joy which accompanies the
Birth of the Messiah is thus seen to be the
foundation and fulfilment of joy at every
child born into the world (cf. Jn 16:21).
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dimensions of his earthly existence, because it consists in
sharing the very life of God. The loftiness of this
supernatural vocation reveals the greatness and
the inestimable value of human life even in its temporal
phase. Life in time, in fact, is the fundamental condition,
the initial stage and an integral part of the entire unified
process of human existence. It is a process which,
unexpectedly and undeservedly, is enlightened by the
promise and renewed by the gift of divine life, which will
reach its full realization in eternity (cf. 1 Jn 3:1-2). At the
same time, it is precisely this supernatural calling which
highlights the relative character of each individual's
earthly life. After all, life on earth is not an "ultimate" but
a "penultimate" reality; even so, it remains a sacred
reality entrusted to us, to be preserved with a sense of
responsibility and brought to perfection in love and in the
gift of ourselves to God and to our brothers and sisters.
Nurses Ethico-Moral
Responsibility
- Ethical decision making
 Good decisions are both ethical
and effective

 Requires commitment,
consciousness and competency
Bases
Code of Ethics of Filipino
Code of Ethics (ICN) Nurses
Thank you!