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 ===[[Artificial Hydration & Nutrition]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Message on End-of-Life Decisions" (1992)
-:“Food and water are part of our basic human care. Artificially-administered nutrition and hydration move beyond basic care to become medical treatment. Health care professionals are not required to use all available medical treatment in all circumstances. Medical treatment may be limited in some instances, and death allowed to occur. Patients have a right to refuse unduly burdensome treatments which are disproportionate to the expected benefits.” ("A Message on End-of-Life Decisions")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/End_Life_DecisionsSM.pdf</ref>
+:“Food and water are part of our basic human care. Artificially-administered nutrition and hydration move beyond basic care to become medical treatment. Health care professionals are not required to use all available medical treatment in all circumstances. Medical treatment may be limited in some instances, and death allowed to occur. Patients have a right to refuse unduly burdensome treatments which are disproportionate to the expected benefits.
 ===[[ Physician-Assisted Suicide/Euthanasia]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Message on End-of-Life Decisions" (1992)
 :“The integrity of the physician-patient relationship is rooted in trust that physicians will act to preserve the life and health of the patient. Physicians and other health care professionals also have responsibility to relieve suffering. This responsibility includes the aggressive management of pain, even when it may result in an earlier death. However, the deliberate action of a physician to take the life of a patient, even when this is the patient’s wish, is a different matter. As a church we affirm that deliberately destroying life creating in the image of God is contrary to our Christian conscience...We oppose the legalization of physician-assisted death, which would allow the private killing of one person by another. Public control and regulation of such actions would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. The potential for abuse, especially of people who are most vulnerable, would be substantially increased.” ("A Message on End-of-Life Decisions")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/End_Life_DecisionsSM.pdf</ref>

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 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust" (2009)
 :“This church supports the development and use of medical products, birth control, and initiatives that support fulfilling and responsible sexuality. This church also recognizes the important role that the availability of birth control has played in allowing women and men to make responsible decisions about the bearing and rearing of children.” ("A Social Statement on Human Sexuality: Gift and Trust")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/SexualitySS.pdf</ref>
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 :"[T]he Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, in Assembly, commit this church in all of its expressions to the premise that 'each person should have ready access to basic health care services that include preventive, acute, and chronic physical and mental health care at an affordable cost.'" ("Health Care Reform")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Health_Care_ReformSPR09.pdf?_ga=2.48155808.642055573.1537388076-748924593.1535664449</ref>
-'''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Health, Healing, and Health Care... Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor" (2003)
+'''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Health, Healing, and Health Care Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor" (2003)
 :“Health care as a shared endeavor entails a comprehensive and coherent set of services of good quality care throughout one’s life span. At a minimum, each person should have ready access to basic health care services that include preventive, acute, and chronic physical and mental health care at an affordable cost.
 :“As members of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, and as a corporate body, we support: 1) a comprehensive approach to health care as a shared endeavor among individuals, churches, government, and the wider society; 2) a vision of health care and healing that includes individual, church, and social responsibilities; 3) a vision of a health care system that is based on understanding health, illness, healing, and health care within a coherent set of services; 4) equitable access for all people to basic health care services and to the benefits of public health efforts; 5) faithful moral discernment guiding individual participation and public policymaking in health care services.” ("Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/HealthSS.pdf</ref>
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 ==[[:Category:Issues of Human Dignity & Discrimination|Issues of Human Dignity & Discrimination]]==
 ===[[Disability Ethics]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Message on People Living with Disabilities" (2011)
 :“All people with disabilities are created in God’s image and share the gift of freedom for relationship and its dignity, regardless of their particular disabilities or range of personal capacities to respond to God and others.” ("A Message on People Living with Disabilities")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/People_with_DisabilitiesSM.pdf</ref>
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 ''The language regarding the termination of pregnancy is ambiguous and could include termination of embryos who have disabilities:''
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Abortion" (1991)
 :“There are circumstances of extreme fetal abnormality, which will result in severe suffering and very early death of an infant. In such cases, after competent medical consultations, the parent(s) may responsibly choose to terminate the pregnancy.” ("A Social Statement on Abortion")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/AbortionSS.pdf</ref>

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 ===[[Abortion]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "Late-Term Abortions" (Social Policy Resolution CA01.06.43, 2001)
-:"Resolved To decline to propose amendments to the "Social Statement on Abortion" of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America inasmuch as the existing document
+:"Resolved To decline to propose amendments to the "Social Statement on Abortion" of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America inasmuch as the existing document addresses the concerns raised in the memorial.
 addresses the concerns raised in the memorial.
 :To affirm the action of the 1999 Churchwide Assembly of the ELCA to encourage continuing moral deliberation throughout this church on abortion" ("Late-Term Abortions")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Late_Term_AbortionsSPR01.pdf?_ga=2.253796751.642055573.1537388076-748924593.1535664449</ref>
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 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "Abortion" (Social Policy Resolution CC95.11.79, 1995)
-:"Resolved To receive with concurrence the recommendation of the work group, acknowledging especially that abortion ought to be an option only of last resort because of
+:"Resolved To receive with concurrence the recommendation of the work group, acknowledging especially that abortion ought to be an option only of last resort because of the basic moral presumption of preserving and protecting life, and underscoring the complex difficulties involved in moral decision-making." ("Abortion")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/AbortionSPR95.pdf?_ga=2.216965393.642055573.1537388076-748924593.1535664449</ref>
 the basic moral presumption of preserving and protecting life, and underscoring the complex difficulties involved in moral decision-making." ("Abortion")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/AbortionSPR95.pdf?_ga=2.216965393.642055573.1537388076-748924593.1535664449</ref>
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Abortion" (1991)

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 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Abortion" (1991)
 :“The language used in discussing abortion should ignore neither the value of unborn life nor the value of the woman and her other relationships. It should neither obscure the moral seriousness of the decision faced by the woman nor hide the moral value of the newly conceived life. Nor is it helpful to use the language of "rights" in absolute ways that imply that no other significant moral claims intrude. A developing life in the womb does not have an absolute right to be born, nor does a pregnant woman have an absolute right to terminate a pregnancy. The concern for both the life of the woman and the developing life in her womb expresses a common commitment to life. This requires that we move beyond the usual "pro-life" versus "pro-choice" language in discussing abortion.
 :Because of the Christian presumption to preserve and protect life, this church, in most circumstances, encourages women with unintended pregnancies to continue the pregnancy.
 :An abortion is morally responsible in those cases in which continuation of a pregnancy presents a clear threat to the physical life of the woman.
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 :There are circumstances of extreme fetal abnormality, which will result in severe suffering and very early death of an infant. In such cases, after competent medical consultations, the parent(s) may responsibly choose to terminate the pregnancy. Whether they choose to continue or to end such pregnancies, this church supports the parent(s) with compassion, recognizing the struggle involved in the decision.
-:This church opposes ending intrauterine life when a fetus is developed enough to live outside a uterus with the aid of reasonable and necessary technology. If a pregnancy needs to be interrupted after this point, every reasonable and necessary effort should be made to support this life, unless there are lethal fetal abnormalities indicating that the prospective newborn will die very soon.” ("A Social Statement on Abortion")<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/AbortionSS.pdf</ref>
+:Although abortion raises significant moral issues at any stage of fetal development, the closer the life in the womb comes to full term the more serious such issues become. When a child can survive outside a womb, it becomes possible for other people, and not only the mother, to nourish and care for the child. This church opposes ending intrauterine life when a fetus is developed enough to live outside a uterus with the aid of reasonable and necessary technology. If a pregnancy needs to be interrupted after this point, every reasonable and necessary effort should be made to support this life, unless there are lethal fetal abnormalities indicating that the prospective newborn will die very soon.
 ===[[Contraception]]===

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 Official Denominational Website: http://www.elca.org
-==Beginning of Life==
+==[[:Category:Beginning of Life|Beginning of Life]]==
 ===[[Abortion]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Abortion" (1991)
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-==Healthcare & Medicine==
+==[[:Category:Healthcare & Medicine|Healthcare & Medicine]]==
 ===[[Access to Healthcare]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Health, Healing, and Health Care... Caring for Health: Our Shared Endeavor" (2003)
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 :*recognizes the existence of various efforts (presumed consent, xenotransplantation, cloning organs, and so forth) to increase the supply of organs and tissue that do not involve buying and selling them. It further recognizes that some of these may represent notable shifts in the economic, moral, social, and theological assumptions of current practice. This church calls for continuing deliberation and careful moral assessment of such proposals. ("Donation of Organs, Tissue, and Whole Blood"<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/Donation_Organs_BloodSPR04.pdf</ref>)
 ==Science & Technology==
-===Biotechnology===
+==[[:Category:Science & Technology|Science & Technology]]==
 ====[[Human Cloning]]====
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Genetics, Faith, and Responsibility" (2011)
 :“As a matter of respect, however, the ELCA affirms the widely held rejection of research into human reproductive cloning because of the unacceptable risk of harm to experimental subjects. This church will continue to reject human reproductive cloning as a matter of respect even if it becomes safe and economically feasible. A person should not be treated as a means to another person’s end. Cloning for the sake of repeating another individual’s genotype violates this standard. Aims other than the replication of identity may be possible, but they are not compelling today.” ("A Social Statement on Genetics, Faith, and Responsibility"<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/GeneticsSS.pdf</ref>)
-===Genetic Ethics===
+===[[:Category:Genetic Ethics|Genetic Ethics]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Social Statement on Genetics, Faith, and Responsibility" (2011)
 :“The ELCA does not reject the use of genetic technology such as genetically modified organisms, prenatal diagnosis, or pharmacogenetics.” ("A Social Statement on Genetics, Faith, and Responsibility"<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/GeneticsSS.pdf</ref>)
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 :“There are circumstances of extreme fetal abnormality, which will result in severe suffering and very early death of an infant. In such cases, after competent medical consultations, the parent(s) may responsibly choose to terminate the pregnancy.” ("A Social Statement on Genetics, Faith, and Responsibility"<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/GeneticsSS.pdf</ref>)
-==End of Life==
+==[[:Category:End of Life|End of Life]]==
 ===[[Extraordinary Measures]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Message on End-of-Life Decisions" (1992)
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 :“The integrity of the physician-patient relationship is rooted in trust that physicians will act to preserve the life and health of the patient. Physicians and other health care professionals also have responsibility to relieve suffering. This responsibility includes the aggressive management of pain, even when it may result in an earlier death. However, the deliberate action of a physician to take the life of a patient, even when this is the patient’s wish, is a different matter. As a church we affirm that deliberately destroying life creating in the image of God is contrary to our Christian conscience...We oppose the legalization of physician-assisted death, which would allow the private killing of one person by another. Public control and regulation of such actions would be extremely difficult, if not impossible. The potential for abuse, especially of people who are most vulnerable, would be substantially increased.” ("A Message on End-of-Life Decisions"<ref>http://download.elca.org/ELCA%20Resource%20Repository/End_Life_DecisionsSM.pdf</ref>)
 ==Issues of Human Dignity & Discrimination==
 ===[[Disability Ethics]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, "A Message on People Living with Disabilities" (2011)