Lesson 12 Pt. 2

Question 1

What are the moral issues

Answer 1

Personhood
Sanctity of life
Quality of life
Autonomy
Mercy
Freedom
Social stability

Question 2

What are the two positions?

Answer 2

Pro-life
Pro-choice

Question 3

Anti-abortion

Answer 3

Pro-life

Question 4

Believes abortion as a murder and should be stopped

Answer 4

Prolife

Question 5

Believes the decision to abort is one of personal liberty and should be legal

Answer 5

Prochoice

Question 6

It is considered a live human

Answer 6

Fetus

Question 7

Union of sperm and egg

Answer 7

Conceptus

Question 8

Full genetic code will determine sex, hair color, skin color, and other attributes

Answer 8

Zygote

Question 9

Zygote settles into uterine wall

Answer 9

Embryo

Question 10

Entity is a fetus

Answer 10

8 weeks

Question 11

Fetus will have begun to move (quickening)

Answer 11

Second trimester

Question 12

Neurologically, fetus can feel pain

Answer 12

5th month

Question 13

Fetus period of potential viability

Answer 13

6th month

Question 14

Fetus develops “minimal consciousness”

Answer 14

Third trimester

Question 15

Birth occurs after _____

Answer 15

9 months

Question 16

______ completely dependent on mother

Answer 16

Infant

Question 17

If someone is about to kill you, and the only way to save yourself is to kill the other person first, then killing is permissible

Answer 17

Killing and Self Defense

Question 18

Distinguish intended effect of an action from other, unintended effects

Answer 18

Doctrine of double effect

Question 19

Traits central to personhood

Answer 19

Ability to feel pain
Reasoning
Capacity to communicate
Concept of the self

Question 20

Characteristic of biological independence

Answer 20

Viability

Question 21

Some argue a fetus has standing only when “it becomes viable outside the mother”

Answer 21

Viability Argument

Question 22

Identify: some philosophers believe there is more to the abortion question that the issue of parenthood

Answer 22

Viability Argument