PHI 2396 Lecture Notes - Therapeutic Abortion, Fetus, Moral Agency
Document Summary
Susan sherwin, abortion through a feminist ethics lens; mary ann warren, on the moral and legal status of abortion: history of abortion law in canada: Bill c-43 abortion allowed only if a doctor certifies that her physical, mental or emotional health will be otherwise threatened. Feminists object to bill c-43 because it places the doctors (not women) as the best judges of a woman"s need for abortion. Feminists also feel that women must have control over their own reproduction. Bill c-43 was rejected. meet the needs, interests, and intuitions of many of the women concerned. Feminists feminists focus their attention on the moral status of the developing embryo/fetus. view the pregnant woman as principal concern in abortion decisions. Non- arguments are grounded in masculinist conceptions of freedom that don"t: non-feminists", arguments against abortion. Abortion is killing a human being; therefore we have to ban abortion unless it"s therapeutic.
