The results of faith-based focus group interview in Taiwan (BF1-BF21) find that the participants of faith-based focus group of Taiwan appear much more strong agreement with the human dignity of the unborn child than those from non-faith focus groups’ members (B22-B42).
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The Question (1): Do you think that the unborn child has the right to live and to enjoy the human dignity of life?
Almost the faith-based participants agree with that the unborn child has the right to live and could to enjoy the human dignity of life than those whose opinions of participants from non-faith groups in Taiwan. The More interesting phenomenon are the altitudes toward human dignity of the unborn child shown more positive than those non-faith participants in Singapore.
B26: It depends. If the unborn child is healthy and the couples have the good condition, then they could make their own better decision. It depends.
Table 4: Results of Focus Group Interview on Question (1) Taiwan
Participants Code
Participants Answer Keyword
BF1 Yes, sure. Yes, sure.
BF2 Yes, they are created by God. They are life from the moment of conception. I mean from the union of egg and sperm.
Created by God, They are life from the moment of conception.
BF3 I think the unborn child has the right to live. the right to live BF4 I am a doctor and I do not think that the unborn
child has the right to live before I receive the baptism. I have to say that I totally change the idea about the unborn child. Nobody told me that even when I receive the medical education. know that the unborn child is a life before we baptized. And we even aborted the children when we think the child number were over what we expected. I do feel sad about this behavior. I thank God that now I know how wrong I have done before. I wish I could know
We do not know
it earlier.
BF6 I got married after receiving the baptism. The Catholic teachings clearly identify the human dignity of the unborn child. I have five children. And I usually choose to abstain from having the unexpected baby. I also regard the abstinence as the respect of my wife. I concern her need to rest. be a Catholic before marriage and actually I am a protestant Christian. I receive the Christian faith earlier than my husband but he knows more and decides earlier to have a devoted religious life. He leads me to know more about the value of religious life. And since he has been the president of a Catholic School, we are lucky to be invited to learn the Natural Family Planning by Catholic Church.
From that program I learn how to take the temperature daily and to observe the time when the ovum is relieved. And Learn to have the plan when is the right time to have baby as well as to serve God in a right way. I also was a teacher to help the other couples. I really feel that child is the gift of God. It’s a good knowledge to learn. Is it still emphasized in the church?
BF8 I have the similar experience as (BF4). I was not a catholic before I got married though my girl-friend was a catholic. Now she is my wife.
We even had the pre-marriage relationship before marriage. I thank God that I do one thing right that I marry her right away when she told me that she was pregnant. I do not doubt that she has our baby. And we are right.
Now we have our boy, he is our first son. And
the daughter came two years later. She was a very good lady and wife. I have to thank God.
The way she teaches the children leads me to decide to receive the baptism. I learn the faith from my wife and children. They do the good examples.
BF9 I think the unborn child is really the gift from God. I am a Catholic and my families have been Catholic from my grandparents. I came from 萬金鄉，it was the first county to receive the baptism in Taiwan. We just celebrate its 150 anniversary several years ago. I thank God that my boy-friend now is my husband, do not asked me to abort the baby when we had the pre-marital sex. Otherwise, we will kill our first boy.
BF12 I think it depends. If the unborn child is healthy, and the mother has the ability to raise it, then I think it is Okay. Otherwise, There are many different cases.
it depends,
BF13 I have to say that the unborn child has the right to live. It is a life from the beginning of the conception. The science has proved it that is life. No matter how small it is. It’s a life and it
BF14 I have the different idea. I think the mother having the more superior right than the unborn child. I do not even think that the unborn child
I think the mother
is a life. I could accept it as a life only after it has its own heart beating.
the unborn child.
BF15 I am a catholic so I think the unborn child is a life from the beginning of the conception. And that is the foundation of its basic right to life.
unborn child is a
BF20 Yes, they should have right to live. right to live BF21 Yes, yes. (And they all nod their heads.) Yes, yes.
B22 I think the parents have the right to decide then it has the right to live.
parents have the right to decide B23 Yes, I agree. I like to think it from the point of
law which is the basic line to make the decision even though the unborn child has the right to live.
Yes, I agree.
B24 I think the unborn child has the right to live but if the parents do not want it that is the abortion problem arises. that my first child is conceived with my wife now before get married and I decide to keep the child and marry her. It's a life. They are our
Yes, they have. I
own children. How can we abort it?
B26 _husband (2): It depends. If the unborn child is healthy and the couples have the good condition, then they could make their own better decision.
It depends.
B27 _husband (3): I agree with it. I agree with it. (It depends.)
B28 _wife (1): I think the unborn child has the right to live. I agree with my husband's idea as he has mentioned. We keep the baby and get married. We never regret with that. But we have to be careful to become pregnant in marriage life. my husband wants to say is about the family plan. I think the family plan does not contradict with the human dignity of the unborn child. The couples need to be responsible with their intimacy and marital sex. unborn child has the right to live if they are healthy.
B31 Yes, they are human life. They have right to live.
B34 Yes, I think the unborn child is human life and unborn child is
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they have right to live. human life, B35 I think we need to check it from the point of
judiciary and the definition of natural person.
If the perspective of law and natural person affirm it then I will say that the unborn child has the right to live, if the perspectives of law and natural person reject it, then I will say it does not has the right to live.
That's why I ask the definition form the perspectives of judiciary. I try to clarify the question. First, it is an assumption, it is not a definition. Basically, the question could be asked like this: if the unborn child has the human dignity, do you agree with it?
Need to check it from the point of judiciary and the definition of natural person,
B36 I cannot understand your question. I cannot understand why you ask the human dignity of the unborn child since I do not know if the unborn child has the right or human dignity. So I cannot answer your question.
Then, I am clearer now. I would say it depends.
There could be several definitions. I would like to ask when the unborn child has its own hear beating. I think if the unborn child has its own heart beating, I will say that it has the right to live.
Yes, good, then it is clear now. Then I will say yes, it has the right or human dignity to live.
it depends,
B37 It depends. If the unborn child is not so big, I mean in the early stage of pregnancy, the mother have the right to abort it as I know.
It depends.
B38 M.., I think the unborn child is still a life though the mother have the right to abort it.
the unborn child is still a life
B39: No, I mean the unborn child is a human life. The unborn child
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Even the mother has the right to abort it. We need to think more about it before make an abortion decision.
is a human life.
Even the mother has the right to abort it. We need to think more about it.
B40 Yes, they have. Yes, they have.
B41 Yes, they have. Yes, they have.
B42 Yes, they have. (And They all nod their heads.) Yes, they have.