Quiz Fourteen Flashcards
utilitarians with Mill’s view on abortion
pro-choice, a woman must be allowed the freedom to decide what happens to her own body which includes the attached fetus
kantians on abortion
depends on it the fetus is considered a person or not
if it is a person it can’t be killed (unless they have the view of self-protection and can abort the fetus if it threatens the mother’s life OR if the fetus is seriously deformed and to respect their personhood they can be terminated to spare them from suffering)
if it isn’t a person it can be justified because autonomy
natural law on abortion (lol)
fetus is an innocent and we can’t kill innocents (eyeroll)
doctrine of double effect- killing the fetus even to save the mothers life is wrong because a bad thing done for a good reason is still bad (some BS) BUT if the fetus is killed by accident then okie dokie (ectopic preg and uterine cancer)
Thompson on abortion
fetus is not guaranteed the use of the mother’s body and can be aborted (if the mother didn’t consent to the pregnancy like in rape and birth control failure)
killing a fetus unjustly is always wrong
can’t say a fetus is a person from the moment of conception because it’s a “slippery slope argument” like saying an acorn can be an oak tree so then an acorn is an oak tree… it just doesn’t work
fetuses are just clumps of cells until a certain point, that point being unknown
the violinist idea
abortion to save the mother’s life is “the extreme view”
a woman can surely defend her life against a threat to it posed by the fetus even if doing so involves its death
pregnancy due to consensual sex could be seen to be non abortable because the woman agree to the sex and the risk of pregnancy
nobody is required to make large sacrifices of health and any other interests or concerns even for the nine month it takes to keep another alive
Marquis on abortion
abortion is almost always wrong because it robs the fetus of the chance to live and experience life
anti-abortionist view of “it is always primae facie wrong to take a human life” seems to be because the thing has living human DNA. This doesn’t make sense because if you have a living human cancer sample that means you cannot kill it as it is both human and living.
pro-abortionist view of “it is prima facie wrong to kill only rational agents” doesn’t make sense as it would mean it’s okay to kill babies, mentally disabled people, or even severely mentally ill people.
abortion is wrong because it is indeterminable to identify the moral status of the fetus (is it a person or not) and it’s better to side of the it is a person side
