Abortion
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- Created by: Harriet
- Created on: 14-01-13 16:46
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- Abortion
- Personhood
- A person is a being that deserves protection under the law
- Murder only applies to a person
- The point at which a foetus becomes a person is the point when it is wrong to kill it and is protected by law
- Definition of personhood?
- Capable of rational though
- No longer living off the mother
- At birth
- At conception
- Self aware
- Marry Anne Warren
- Sentience, emotionality, reason, communication, self awareness and moral agency
- Don't need all attributes to be a person
- Foetus has none of these attributes
- Foetus is only potential life
- Sentience, emotionality, reason, communication, self awareness and moral agency
- Gradual change?
- Ensoulment- 120 days
- Birth is clearest boundary
- A person is a being that deserves protection under the law
- Sanctity of life
- Belief human life is God given
- Special status and worthy of the highest respect
- 'The Lord giveth, the Lord taketh away'
- All quotes from the Old Testiment
- For humans to intervene is to play God
- Potentiality
- Foetus isn't a person but should be given same status as a person because it has the potential of being a person.
- Do you include sperm and eggs as potential humans?
- From the moment of conception?
- Viability
- The point at which life is viable, if child is born it is more likely to survive than die
- This point decreases with medical advances
- Depends on the quality of medical available varies country to country.
- Reasons for having abortion
- Sex for pleasure not procreation
- Low child mortality- less need for so many children
- Foetal adnormalities
- Failed contraception
- Mother needs medical treatment
- Ectopic pregnacy
- Without means of raising child
- Pro life
- Against abortion- life of foetus before that of mothers
- Pro choice
- For abortion- choice of mother over life of foetus
- Judith Thompson
- Womans choice- she isnt morally obliged to either way
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- Personhood
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