Abortion- Intro
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- Created on: 24-12-15 13:24
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- Abortion: Deliberate termination of a pregnancy
- Legal position:
- The 1967 Abortion Act:
- Legalised abortion up to 28 weeks, with two doctors consent, for medical reasons, for psychological reasons or family reasons
- The age of viability has now dropped to 22 weeks with medical advances
- "Slippery slope" Potential beginning of a trend- Used as form of contraception
- Person-hood: When does life begin?
- J Glover: Determining the point at which a person becomes a person is not logically possible
- Conception, validity,birth
- Peter Singer: To be a person, one needs to be conscious & have the ability to feel pain & be self aware
- Marry Anne Warren: Birth-What characteristics? Reason& communication:"Genetic humanity is not enough"- Birth is time when baby no longer relies on mother for survival
- Clover: Rejects this- No difference between late foetus and a new born
- Don Marquis: Abortion is wrong, it deprives someone of a future- "The ethics of killing is self-evident"
- The Quality of Life:
- Danger here of "playing God" can be seen as paternalistic
- Fears that if fails to treat foetus with dignity, will inevitably lead down a "slippery slope"
- Peter Singer: "Replacement Argument"- It is always better to replace a less happy child by a happier one
- J.J. Thompson: women are not morally obliged to complete every unwanted pregnancy
- Sancity of Life
- Life is intrinsically valuable,our duty to preserve it
- The Right to a child:
- Fertility treatments; IVF, Artificial insemination, surrogacy, PGD
- Legal position:
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