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-===[[Human Research Ethics]]===
+===[[:Category:Human Research Ethics|Human Research Ethics]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from General Conference Executive Committee, "Ethical Considerations Regarding Human Cloning" (Iguacu Falls, Brazil, 1998)
 :"God intends for human beings to grow in their appreciation and understanding of His creation, which includes knowledge regarding the human body. For this reason, efforts to understand the biological structures of life through ethical research should be encouraged." ("Ethical Considerations Regarding Human Cloning")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/ethical-considerations-regarding-human-cloning/</ref>

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 ==[[:Category:Healthcare & Medicine|Healthcare & Medicine]]==
-'''Official Statement:''' from "Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions"
+'''Official Statement:''' from General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee, "Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions" (Nairobi, Kenya, 1988)
-:"Health-care institutions function as an integral part of the total ministry of the Church and follow church standards including maintaining the sacredness of the Sabbath by promoting a Sabbath atmosphere for staff and patients, avoiding routine business, elective diagnostic services, and elective therapies on Sabbath."
+:"Health-care institutions . . . function as an integral part of the total ministry of the Church and follow church standards including maintaining the sacredness of the Sabbath by promoting a Sabbath atmosphere for staff and patients, avoiding routine business, elective diagnostic services, and elective therapies on Sabbath.
-:Seventh-day Adventist health-care institutions give high priority to personal dignity and human relationships. This includes appropriate diagnosis and treatment by competent personnel; a safe, caring environment conducive to the healing of mind, body, and spirit; and education in healthful habits of living."
+:Seventh-day Adventist health-care institutions give high priority to personal dignity and human relationships. This includes appropriate diagnosis and treatment by competent personnel; a safe, caring environment conducive to the healing of mind, body, and spirit; and education in healthful habits of living. It also includes supportive care of the patient and family through the dying process.
-:Health-care policies and medical procedures must always reflect a high regard and concern for the value of human life as well as individual dignity."
+:Health-care policies and medical procedures must always reflect a high regard and concern for the value of human life as well as individual dignity. ("Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/operating-principles-for-health-care-institutions/</ref>
-:("Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/operating-principles-for-health-care-institutions/</ref>
 '''Official Statement:''' from General Conference Christian View of Human Life Committee, "Female Genital Mutilation" (2000)
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 ===[[Access to Healthcare]]===
-'''Official Statement:''' from "Seventh-day Adventist Call to Commitment to Health and Healing"
+'''Official Statement:''' from General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Executive Committee, "Commitment to Health and Healing" (Silver Springs, MA, 2009)
-:"The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists reiterates its commitment to the principles of human dignity and equity, social justice, freedom, self-determination, access to clean food and water, and non-discriminatory universal access to available health care."
+:"The General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists reiterates its commitment to the principles of human dignity and equity, social justice, freedom, self-determination, access to clean food and water, and non-discriminatory universal access to available health care. Through its ministry of preaching, teaching, healing, and discipling the Church seeks to represent the mission of Jesus Christ in such a way as to be:
-:Regarded globally as teaching a wholistic model of evidence based healthful living in primary health care."
+:#Regarded globally as teaching a wholistic model of evidence based healthful living in primary health care.
-:Seen at all times as a trusted, transparent ally of organizations with compatible goals and vision, in alleviating suffering and addressing basic health and well-being."
+:#Seen at all times as a trusted, transparent ally of organizations with compatible goals and vision, in alleviating suffering and addressing basic health and well-being.
-:Recognized for the unconditional scope of its embrace of all persons seeking this basic health and well-being."
+:#Recognized for the unconditional scope of its embrace of all persons seeking this basic health and well-being.
-:Involved not only administratively but also functionally at every level including each congregation and church member in this ministry of health and healing." ("Seventh-day Adventist Call to Commitment to Health and Healing")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/commitment-to-health-and-healing/</ref>
+:#Involved not only administratively but also functionally at every level including each congregation and church member in this ministry of health and healing." ("Commitment to Health and Healing")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/commitment-to-health-and-healing/</ref>
 ===[[Privacy of Healthcare Information]]===
-'''Official Statement:''' from "Christian Principles for Genetic Interventions"
+'''Official Statement:''' from General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists Administrative Committee, "Christian Principles for Genetic Interventions" (1995)
-:"Information about a person’s genetic constitution should be kept confidential unless the person elects to share the knowledge with others."
+:Christian love requires that trust be maintained in human relationships. The protection of confidentiality is essential to such trust. In order to safeguard personal privacy and protect against unfair discrimination, information about a person’s genetic constitution should be kept confidential unless the person elects to share the knowledge with others. In cases where others may suffer serious and avoidable harm without genetic information about another person, there is a moral obligation to share the needed information.
-:The protection of personal privacy and confidentiality is one of the major concerns associated with the new possibilities for genetic testing. . . . At stake is the protection of persons from stigma and unfair discrimination on the basis of their genetic makeup.  Another cluster of concerns related to human dignity stems from the possibility of intentionally altering the human gene pool. . . . What are the implications for the meaning of being human, for example, if interventions aimed at enhancing human intelligence or physique become available?" ("Christian Principles for Genetic Interventions")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/documents/article/go/0/christian-principles-for-genetic-interventions/</ref>
+:The protection of personal privacy and confidentiality is one of the major concerns associated with the new possibilities for genetic testing. . . . At stake is the protection of persons from stigma and unfair discrimination on the basis of their genetic makeup. ("Christian Principles for Genetic Interventions")<ref>https://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/documents/article/go/0/christian-principles-for-genetic-interventions/</ref>

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-Official website: http://adventist.org/
+Official Denominational Website: https://adventist.org/
 ==Beginning of Life==
 ===[[Abortion]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from "Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/0/abortion/</ref> on the denomination website.
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 :"Abortions for reasons of birth control, gender selection, or convenience are not condoned by the Church." ("Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/0/abortion/</ref> on the denomination website)
-==Infertility & Reproduction==
+==[[:Category:Infertility & Reproduction|Infertility & Reproduction]]==
-===[[Reproductive Technologies Statements|Reproductive Technology]]===
+===[[:Category:Reproductive Technologies|Reproductive Technologies]]===
 '''Official Statement:''' from "Considerations on Assisted Human Reproduction"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/documents/article/go/0/considerations-on-assisted-human-reproduction/</ref>
 :"Developments in medical technology have led to a number of interventions designed to assist human procreation. Procedures such as artificial insemination, in vitro fertilization, surrogacy, embryo transfer, and cloning increasingly provide new options in human reproduction. Such interventions raise serious ethical questions for Christians seeking God's will on these issues. The hope of having children is generally powerful. When this hope is frustrated by problems of infertility, the disappointment of childlessness weighs heavily on many couples. Their sorrow deserves understanding and compassion. It is not surprising that many who suffer sadness because of infertility turn to new reproductive technologies to restore hope. However, with the power of such technologies comes the responsibility to decide whether and when they should be used. Because of their conviction that God is concerned with all dimensions of human life, Seventh-day Adventists are committed to discovering and following God's principles for human reproduction. The power of procreation is God's gift, and should be used to glorify God and bless humanity."
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 ::("Statement on Ethical Considerations Regarding Human Cloning"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/ethical-considerations-regarding-human-cloning/</ref>)
-==Healthcare & Medicine==
+==[[:Category:Healthcare & Medicine|Healthcare & Medicine]]==
 '''Official Statement:''' from "Operating Principles for Health-Care Institutions"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/operating-principles-for-health-care-institutions/</ref>
 :"Health-care institutions function as an integral part of the total ministry of the Church and follow church standards including maintaining the sacredness of the Sabbath by promoting a Sabbath atmosphere for staff and patients, avoiding routine business, elective diagnostic services, and elective therapies on Sabbath."
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-==Science & Technology==
+==[[:Category:Science & Technology|Science & Technology]]==
-===Biotechnology===
+===[[:Category:Biotechnology|Biotechnology]]===
 ====[[Human Cloning]]====
 '''Official Position:''' from "Statement on Ethical Considerations Regarding Human Cloning"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/ethical-considerations-regarding-human-cloning/</ref>
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-===Genetic Ethics===
+===[[:Category:Genetic Ethics|Genetic Ethics]]===
 ====[[Gender Selection]]====
 '''Official Statement:'''
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-==End of Life==
+==[[:Category:End of Life|End of Life]]==
 '''Official Statements:''' from "A Statement of Consensus on Care for the Dying"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/care-for-the-dying/</ref>
 :"The Bible teaches that no amount or intensity of human suffering can atone for sin."
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-==Issues of Human Dignity & Discrimination==
+==[[:Category:Issues of Human Dignity & Discrimination|Issues of Human Dignity & Discrimination]]==
 ===[[Disability Ethics]]===
 '''Official Statement:'''
 :"The Christian acknowledgement of God’s wisdom and power in creation should lead to caution in attempts to alter permanently the gene pool.  Given current knowledge, genetic interventions should be limited to treatment of individuals with genetic disorders and should not include attempts to change human reproductive cells that could affect the image of God in future generations.”
 :"The primary purpose of human genetic intervention should be the treatment or prevention of disease and the alleviation of pain and suffering." ("Christian Principles for Genetic Interventions"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/documents/article/go/0/christian-principles-for-genetic-interventions/</ref>)
 ===[[Eugenics]]===
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 :"Beyond the fundamental issue of safety, germline therapy raises serious ethical concerns. These include the problem of informed consent from individuals not yet born, assessing the long-term consequences of genetic alterations, the possible reduction of human diversity by systematic elimination of specific traits, genetic determinism imposed by the choices of the original patient and genetic therapists, the prospect that germline therapy may be used in eugenics programs, and the problematic issue of using it to engineer cosmetic enhancements. Because of the unresolved safety and ethical issues, germline therapy is widely discouraged or prohibited." ("A Seventh-day Adventist Statement Concerning Human Gene Therapy"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/documents/article/go/0/human-gene-therapy/</ref>)
 ==Notes==

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 ==Beginning of Life==
 ===[[Abortion]]===
-'''Official Statement:''' from "Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/guidelines/main-guide1.html</ref> on the denomination website.
+'''Official Statement:''' from "Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/0/abortion/</ref> on the denomination website.
 :"Many contemporary societies have faced conflict over the morality of abortion. Such conflict also has affected large numbers within Christianity who want to accept responsibility for the protection of prenatal human life while also preserving the personal liberty of women. Seventh-day Adventists want to relate to the question of abortion in ways that reveal faith in God as the Creator and Sustainer of all life and in ways that reflect Christian responsibility and freedom."
 :"Prenatal human life is a magnificent gift of God. God's ideal for human beings affirms the sanctity of human life, in God's image, and requires respect for prenatal life. However, decisions about life must be made in the context of a fallen world. Abortion is never an action of little moral consequence. Thus prenatal life must not be thoughtlessly destroyed. Abortion should be performed only for the most serious reasons."
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 :"In practical, tangible ways the Church as a supportive community should express its commitment to the value of human life. These ways should include: strengthening family relationships, educating both genders concerning Christian principles of human sexuality, emphasizing responsibility of both male and female for family planning, calling both to be responsible for the consequences of behaviors that are inconsistent with Christian principles, creating a safe climate for ongoing discussion of the moral questions associated with abortion, offering support and assistance to women who choose to complete crisis pregnancies, and encouraging and assisting fathers to participate responsibly in the parenting of their children. The Church also should commit itself to assist in alleviating the unfortunate social, economic, and psychological factors that add to abortion and to care redemptively for those suffering the consequences of individual decisions on this issue."
 :"Abortions for reasons of birth control, gender selection, or convenience are not condoned by the Church. Women, at times however, may face exceptional circumstances that present serious moral or medical dilemmas, such as significant threats to the pregnant woman's life, serious jeopardy to her health, severe congenital defects carefully diagnosed in the fetus, and pregnancy resulting from rape or incest. The final decision whether to terminate the pregnancy or not should be made by the pregnant woman after appropriate consultation."
-:Christians "seek balance between the exercise of individual liberty and their accountability to the faith community and the larger society and its laws. They make their choices according to scripture and the laws of God rather than the norms of society." ("Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/guidelines/main-guide1.html</ref> on the denomination website)
+:Christians "seek balance between the exercise of individual liberty and their accountability to the faith community and the larger society and its laws. They make their choices according to scripture and the laws of God rather than the norms of society." ("Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/0/abortion/</ref> on the denomination website)
 ===[[Contraception]]===
-'''Official Statement:''' from "Birth Control: A Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Consensus"<ref>http://adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main-stat44.html</ref>
+'''Official Statement:''' from "Birth Control: A Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Consensus"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/birth-control/</ref>
 :Responsible stewardship: “Christian stewardship also requires taking responsibility for human procreation. Sexuality, as one of the aspects of human nature over which the individual has stewardship, is to be expressed in harmony with God’s will.”
 :Procreative purpose: “The perpetuation of the human family is one of God’s purposes for human sexuality. Though it may be inferred that marriages are generally intended to yield offspring, Scripture never presents procreation as an obligation of every couple in order to please God.”
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 :Misuse of birth control: “The use of such methods to protect sex outside of marriage may reduce the risks of sexually transmitted diseases and/or pregnancy. Sex outside of marriage, however, is both harmful and immoral, whether or not these risks have been diminished.”
 :A redemptive approach: “Less effort should be put forth in condemnation and more in education and redemptive approaches that seek to allow each individual to be persuaded by the deep movings of the Holy Spirit.”
-::("Birth Control: A Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Consensus"<ref>http://adventist.org/beliefs/statements/main-stat44.html</ref>)
+::("Birth Control: A Seventh-day Adventist Statement of Consensus"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/statements/article/go/0/birth-control/</ref>)
-:"Abortions for reasons of birth control, gender selection, or convenience are not condoned by the Church." ("Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/beliefs/guidelines/main-guide1.html</ref> on the denomination website)
+:"Abortions for reasons of birth control, gender selection, or convenience are not condoned by the Church." ("Guidelines on Abortion"<ref>http://www.adventist.org/en/information/official-statements/guidelines/article/go/0/abortion/</ref> on the denomination website)
 ==Infertility & Reproduction==