Abortion and a right to a child
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- Abortion and right to a child
- Mary Ann Warren
- In favour of abortion
- Gives criteria for personhood
- Consciousness
- Ability to feel pain
- Exercising the use of reason
- Being self aware
- Virginia Mollenkott
- In favour of abortion
- "Killing a foetus is not seriously wrong"
- A foetus doesn't have personhood as it has to have commitments and do things back and forth which a foetus doesn't
- Jane English
- A foetus might not be a person but is should still have a moral code
- We have a moral code on how to treat animals but they aren't humans
- James Mackie
- The unborn child is already a human
- Abortion is murder
- Catholic Church
- The foetus has personhood from conception
- The foetus is neither part of the mother or the father, it is a separate entity
- Judith Jarvis Thomson
- Analogy of a violinist
- You wake up attached to an unconscious violinist as the Society of Music Lovers kidnapped you in the night
- You are told that his circulatory system is plugged into you and you must stay that way for 9 months or he will die
- What if it were not nine months but nine years? Shouldn't you get a choice in what happens
- In favour of abortion
- Analogy of a violinist
- Mary Ann Warren
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