Rights of a human person

1. Religious Rights
a. Right of religious freedom.
b. Right to private and public expressions of religious beliefs.
c. Right to religious belief.

2. Bodily Rights
a. Instrumental rights to security and sickness, inability to work, old age, and
unemployment.
b. Social right to food, clothing, shelter, rest, medical care.
c. Personal rights to life and bodily integrity.

3. Communication Rights
a. Right to be informed truthfully.
b. Right to freedom of expressions, education, and culture.
c. Right to communicate.

4. Sexual and Familial Rights

a. Rights to economic, social, cultural and moral conditions necessary for family
life.
b. Right to found a family or live singly, right to procreate.
c. Right to choose a state of life.

5. Rights of Movement
a. Right to internal and external migration.
b. Right of nationality and residence.
c. Right to freedom of movement.
6. Political Rights
a. Right to judicial protection of political participation (suffrage, due process).
b. Right to political participation.
c. Right to self-determination.

7. Associational Rights
a. Right to form societies and organizations.
b. Right of assembly and association.
c. Right to social intercourse.

8. Economic Rights
a. Right to organized unions, right to property.
b. Right to adequate working conditions and a just wage.
c. Right to work.

The Church proposed a framework for economic life: (US

Bishops)

1. The economy exists for the person, not the person for the economy.
2. All economic life should be shaped by moral principles.
3. A fundamental moral measure of any economy is how the poor and vulnerable
are faring.
4. All the people have the right to life and to secure the basic necessities of life
(food, clothing, education, shelter, etc.)
5. All people have the right to economic initiative, to productive work, to just
wages and benefits, to decent working conditions, and to organize and join
unions and associations.
6. All people, to the extent they are able, have a duty to work, a responsibility to
provide for the needs of their families and an obligation to contribute to the
broader society.
7. In economic life, government has essential responsibilities and limitation;
voluntary groups have irreplaceable roles but cannot substitute for the proper
working of the market or the just policies in economic life.
8. Society has a moral obligation, including government action where necessary,
to assure opportunity, meet the basic human needs and pursue justice in
economic life.
9. By our choices, we enhance or diminish economic opportunity.
10. Discretion on investment trade, and development should protect human life
and foster human rights.

DIONABIE P. BACTASA
BSHM - 2A
 Reproductive Technology and Genetic Engineering

Reproductive Technology
Concerning human procreation and new technologies, the authoritative body of the
Church expresses their consideration on the anguished plight of loving couples who
authentically intend to have their own child but for certain physiological reason, cannot.
The bishop teach that in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination by donor, embryo
transplants involving surrogate of host mothers and other modern technology advances
could have serious physiological, psychological, sociological and moral implication.
Bishops are not against modern scientific procedures. In fact, they encourage
modern affirmation approaches of science that can raise the probability of alleviating
human suffering on which can assist couples to conceive and bear children such as surgery
to repair blocked oviducts, or assisted insemination by husband to facilitate conception
within the context of the personal marital embrace.

Genetic Engineering
Genetic Engineering as the rearrangement or substitution of genes on the molecules
level within the chromosomes. It includes cellular manipulation; e.g. cloning (it result in
on genetic heredity change).

Peschke clarifies that a gene is cut into sections and fragments from another gene
are then inserted between the separated parts reunited into a recombined genes.

Types of Genetic Engineering

1. Genetic Engineering of Infrahuman life
scientist’s intention of genetic engineering on the infrahuman sphere is the
construction of organism with desired traits. It is more on plants and animals.
Ex: Breeding of different types of rice to create new hybrid able to double the harvest.
2. Genetic Engineering of Human life
Cellular gene therapy tries to correct abnormalities in the cell structure of the developing
embryo. Genetic therapy configures in the elimination of defects of the genes themselves. Such
alterations are hereditary. Many hereditary illnesses can only be corrected in this way.
Ex: Removing the extra 21’st chromosome which is the cause of Down Syndrome (mongolism).
Princess Joyce Sayno
BSHM - 2A