The Charter for Health Care Workers is a document that focuses on the dilemmas that health care workers face when dealing with the areas that are highlighted in the document. These areas are procreation, life, and death. This paper is a reflection of this document, focusing on four questions. (1) The document considers health care to be a vocation. What do you understand that to mean, and how is that different from health care merely being a job? (2) Explain that document's teaching of two of the following issues and explain how they are related to each other, in terms of the positions taken: genetic manipulation, fertility control, artificial procreation, abortion, euthanasia. Do you agree or disagree, and why? (3) The document states: "Not everything which is technically possible can be considered morally admissible." Do you agree or disagree, and why? (4) What makes this a particularly religious document? .
The three focuses of the book, procreation, life, and death, are the foundations of human life. It is the beginning, the middle, and the end of life on earth. Procreation is the right of humans to multiply, and make new life in the image of God. Procreation comes into controversy when dealing with the ideas of genetic manipulation, and contraception. Life is the right of all human beings. All humans have a right to a full and healthy life. Death is the ultimate end to human life, it is inevitable. Humans have the right to a peaceful, and calm death. In this life we need help in healing on our journey to death, not only spiritually, but physically also. This document focuses on the spirituality of physical healing, by addressing the issues from a religious prospective. .
The document considers health care to be a vocation. This means that it believes that the professionals that work in health care have more than a job, they have a life mission, a commitment to bettering human life through caring, compassion, and dedication to all aspects of human life.
