Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. The Catholic concept of double effect is used to allow acts that result in the death of a fetus in some specific cases.
2. Saint Augustine specified that the soul is not present in a fetus until it is capable of feeling pain.
3. In Islam, aborting a fetus is not immoral because fetuses at any stage of development do not have souls.
4. A homunculus means a tiny person; in the textbook we meet the concept in the old conviction that inside each person's head is a small copy of that person representing the soul.
5. 5. The early modern concept of the homunculus, or tiny "little man" inside each sperm, has been verified by modern biology and technology.


1. True
2. True
3. False
4. False
5. False

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