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Philosophy and Ethics Seminar in Gloucester Cathedral |
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“It’s my life”
On Thursday 24th September, the A-level Philosophy and Ethics students plus potential medics from the Biology Department and Mrs. Locke set off for Gloucester Cathedral to attend a conference on medical ethics delivered by three prominent guests: Mr. Michael Cohn, gynaecologist and HCS parent, Dr. Allison Grove, a palliative care specialist from St. Giles Hospice, Lichfield and the controversial philosopher and euthanasia advocate, Baroness Mary Warnock, famous as chair of the committee inquiring into the ethics of human fertilisation and embryology. The seminar in Gloucester was entitled ‘It’s my life’ and discussed delicate and demanding issues at both ends of human existence. Mr. Cohn gave a detailed insight into the technical ins and outs of abortion and his own feelings on the matter, whilst Baroness Warnock and Allison Grove provided their radically differing views on assisted suicide, and whether improved palliative care is the better option. Students from all schools posed some difficult questions to the panel, ours being ‘What do you think about the sanctity of life?’ which elicited a suitably sceptical response from Mary Warnock and divided the panel.
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