Ethical responses to ethical issues
- Created by: Emily Uffindell
- Created on: 29-04-14 12:00
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- Ethical responses to ethical issues
- Utilitarianism
- Abortion
- Does not believe that human life has absolute value
- Attempt to assess each individual situation on it's own merits.
- Only works if you're able to assess the results of an abortion which is difficult as we cannot predict all consequences.
- Example: the mother may react badly to the operation
- Preference Utilitarianism: better approach it considers the preferences of the mother or the harm done to other family members.
- Right to life
- Would consider the pain/pleasure principle and measure the pain of the unused embroyo to the pleasure of the parents and the baby that was created.
- Would also consider the chance of success and how this would affect the happiness of the couple, their friends and their family.
- Doesn't take into account the rights of the embryo as it's not seen as sacred.
- Is it ethical to spend money on assisting reproduction for a few adding to the popular and contributing to the pain of many.
- Abortion
- Kantian Ethics
- Abortion
- Hard to universalise as there are many different reasons/motivations for wanting to obtain an abortion.
- Emotions are to be disregarded when making moral decision but we must use them if the mother has been *****/is very young/ carrying a severely disabled foetus.
- Is a foetus a person? If so we cannot treat them as ends in themselves,
- Right to life
- If an embryo is considered a person, one needs to ask whether the destruction of so many embryos is justified to create new life.
- Selecting an embryo to be a genetic match to cure a sick sibling is treating someone as means to an end.
- Universalisation
- Abortion
- Natural Law
- Abortion
- Abortion goes against the primary precepts of preservation of life and reproduction.
- Right to life
- Problems with IVF
- Problems with masturbation as it is a misuse of genitalia needed for reproduction.
- Destruction of embryos goes against the primary precept protection of the innocence.
- It's absolute so doesn't take different factors into account.
- Abortion
- Religious Ethics
- Abortion
- Sanctity of life- the idea that life is sacred and worthy of respect and is intrinsically worthwhile.
- Pro-life: God is the giver and creator of life and people have no right to destroy what life has given. People are created in the image of God.
- Some Christians will allow abortion if continuing to carry the baby will threaten a mothers' needs or physical/emotional health.
- Protestant church: accepts AIH but disallows AIF.
- Abortion
- Utilitarianism
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