Abortion

Question 1

What year is the abortion act?

Answer 1

1967

Question 2

It is legal up to how many weeks?

Answer 2

24

Question 3

What fraction of pregnancies end in abortion?

Answer 3

1/4

Question 4

How many million take place annually?

Answer 4

56 million

Question 5

In the past 20 years how much has the number of abortions risen?

Answer 5

6 million

Question 6

What is the Sanctity of life?

Answer 6

The idea that all life is sacred as it belongs to God

Question 7

A quote from the Bible on the sanctity of life?

Answer 7

Man was created “in the image of God”

The human body is “a temple of the holy spirit”

Question 8

Aquinas’ argument on the sanctity of life?

Answer 8

Natural Theology, the first of his five primary precepts was to preserve life

Question 9

Natural Theology argument?

Answer 9

Everything has an order that must be followed to please God

Question 10

Roman Catholic argument on sanctity life?

Answer 10

Absolutist, life is sacred from the moment of conception

Question 11

Schweitzer’s argument on the sanctity of life?

Answer 11

All humans are deserving of ‘Reverence to life’ meaning we have an inbuilt desire to live and we should not have the right to take this

Question 12

Critique of Schweitzer?

Answer 12

Many Anne Warren thinks that will is based on the capacity to think so it cannot be applied to a foetus

Question 13

Don Marquis argument on sanctity of life?

Answer 13

Secular argument that abortion is removing the gift of experience

Question 14

4 arguments for sanctity of life?

Answer 14

Natural theology
Roman Catholic
Schweitzer
Don Marquis

Question 15

What is personhood?

Answer 15

The debate of when a ‘life’ becomes a ‘person’

Question 16

Singer’s opinion on personhood?

Answer 16

A person is someone who shows rationality and self-conciousness

Question 17

Jack Mahoney’s 5 criteria?

Answer 17

Rationality
Sentience
Emotion
Free will
Continuity

Question 18

Roman Catholic opinion on personhood?

Answer 18

Conception

Question 19

Methodist church opinion on personhood?

Answer 19

Difficult to pin-point

Question 20

Islam opinion on personhood?

Answer 20

Ensoulment/quickening (40/120 days)

Question 21

British Law opinion on personhood?

Answer 21

Viability

Question 22

Mary Anne Warren opinion on personhood?

Answer 22

Infancy

Question 23

7 opinions on personhood?

Answer 23

Singer
Mahoney
Roman Catholic
Methodist
Islam
British Law
Mary Anne Warren

Question 24

5 rights of the mother?

Answer 24

Right to choose
Autonomy
Self determination
Liberty
Emancipation of women from slavery to their bodies

Question 25

Kantian opinion on rights of the mother?

Answer 25

Pregnancy is using women as a means to certain social ends

Question 26

Utilitarianism opinion on rights of the mother?

Answer 26

Abortion does not cause suffering or reduce happiness

Question 27

Warren’s opinion on rights of the mother?

Answer 27

Forcing woman to childbear can cause mental, physical, and financial consequences
No contraception is 100% effective

Question 28

Thomson’s opinion on rights of the mother?

Answer 28

She has no obligation
Mother’s rights should always be help highest
Kidnapping of woman to keep violinist alive analogy

Question 29

4 opinions on rights of the mother?

Answer 29

Kantian
Utilitarianism
Warren
Thomson

Question 30

What is the right of the foetus?

Answer 30

Right to life

Question 31

Romans Catholic view on rights of the foetus?

Answer 31

Absolutist, always regarded most highly

Question 32

Methodist view on rights of the foetus?

Answer 32

The right of the embryo to full respect increases throughout preganacy

Question 33

Islam view on rights of the foetus?

Answer 33

It is regarded after the quickening/ensoulment (40/120 days?)

Question 34

3 views on rights of the foetus?

Answer 34

Roman Catholic
Methodist
Islam