Abortion is the process by which an embryo or fetus is removed from the uterus‚ resulting in the termination of a pregnancy. Natural or non induced abortions are commonly known as miscarriages. Abortion has had a long and passionate history. It has been induced through various methods ranging from‚ herbal medicines‚ and the use of sharpened tools‚ physical trauma‚ and other traditional methods. The different legal and cultural views on abortion differ around the world‚ and in many regions of the
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Personhood status and its consequences In the article‚ On the legal and moral status of abortion‚ Mary Anne Warren (1973) states that biological humanity is irrelevant‚ to achieve satisfactory evaluation on the moral permissibility of abortion we need to consider the personhood status of fetus. Through her criteria of personhood she determines that fetus is not a person; therefore‚ abortion is morally permissible. Her argument is certainly deductively valid; however‚ it is unsound because personhood
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Abortion. To have life or not. Imagine a young girl‚ no more than the age of nine‚ raped by a close family member and unfortunately now pregnant. Is this little girl capable of giving birth to offspring with such a small frame and such a fragile mentality. Imagine another instance. A more well off woman‚ with money‚ a stable lifestyle‚ and a nice husband. She also got pregnant. Nothing prevents her from having a baby. Nothing stands in the way‚ no financial trouble‚ no health issues‚ no relationship
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Mary Anne Warren argues the position that abortion is morally permissible because the fetus is not a person therefore has no rights therefore not immoral to be killed. I shall argue that Warren’s position is invalid since her argument “appears to justify not only abortion‚ but infanticide as well.” From the time that Warren’s article “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion” was published she has gotten critiques that her argument “appears to justify not only abortion‚ but infanticide as well.”
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A. Mary Anne Warren in the chapter “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion and Postscript on Infanticide” discusses her views on pro-abortion. Warren explains how a fetus has not reached enough development to be considered a person. In order for a being to be considered a person they must have a list of five traits. The first is “consciousness”‚ specifically the facility to feel emotions externally and internally‚ such as pain. The second is “reasoning”‚ the capability to finding solutions to
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The morality of abortion is an argument that has spanned decades with debates on both sides as to whether or not it is right to kill a fetus that is not yet born. Even today‚ there is still no set motion that humanity follows as a whole‚ and they have been labelled as being either ‘pro-choice’ or ‘pro-life’ following in their own beliefs as to what is right. There are even many articles‚ essays‚ and journals today which exist to validate the point of each of these sides. Many have attempted to make
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On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion Mary Anne Warren’s argument that “because women are persons and fetuses are not‚ women’s rights override whatever right to life a fetus may possess” because of the characteristics of personhood and moral community that a fetus does not yet have (Warren 164) is shown through the following argument: 1) If unwanted and dangerous pregnancies occur‚ woman should morally and justifiably have the right without any restrictions to have an abortion. 2) Unwanted
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Mary Anne Warren argued that fetus is a human being but not a person‚ which only persons have full moral rights. What is human being? What is person? Is it right for a woman to carry out abortion? In this essay‚ we will pinpoint at commenting her criteria on personhood. It is useful to look beyond for us to decide whether other beings like aliens are a person or not. If we want to be sure of behaving morally towards these beings‚ we have to somehow decide whether they are people‚ and hence
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Edwin Carter Jr. Session Paper Draft Applied Ethics October 15‚ 2010 “On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion”‚ an essay written by Mary Anne Warren‚ defend abortion in any stage of a woman’s pregnancy (pg 468). Warren argues that the potential to become a human being is not the same as being human and deserving the same right to life (pg. 468-472). This essay asserts that in order to be human‚ one must possess five particular traits (pg. 470). These trait are consciousness‚ reasoning‚ self-motivated
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argument against abortion as it was presented in class. (1 point)!! Answer It is wrong to kill an innocent human being A fetus is an innocent human being So it is wrong to kill a fetus b. Mary Anne Warren argues that the Pope’s argument turns on an ambiguity. Which word does she say is ambiguous in the Pope’s argument? (1 word‚ 1/2 point)!! Answer Human c. What are the two meanings of that word that might be at issue according to Warren? (2 sentences‚ 1/2 point)!! Answer Moral sense and genetic
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