Catholic Social Thought Class 7

1. What we’ll do today:
 Jigsaw exercise (45 minutes)
 Debriefing, questions, discussion (25 minutes)
In-class Learning Outcomes
 Explain the reasoning both documents use for their conclusions
 Explain how each reasons about personhood
 Self-Assessment (5 minutes)
 What did you contribute to your various groups today?
 What’s the most important thing that you didn’t know before today about what these two documents say,
but which you now feel you could explain well to others?

2. Church & State on Abortion: Discuss texts that….
Summarize the
Church's conclusions
about the immorality
of direct abortion
and the reasons it
gives for them
(§§5-12).
Explain what the
Church says about
the personhood of
the fetus and why
(esp. §13).
Summarize the
Supreme Court's
conclusions and the
reasons it gives for
the legality of
abortion.
Explain what the
Supreme Court says
about the
personhood of the
fetus and why.

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3 4
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4. The 14th Amendment
Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United
States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of
the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No
State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the
privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor
shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property,
without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its
jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.