PHL281H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Genetic Testing, Reductio Ad Absurdum, Homicide
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What is the right to life: pope john paul ii predicates his argument against abortion on fetuses having a right to life. Pope suggests that to understand human existence at its very beginning, we can use the concepts that we are used to in dealing with one another: we are rights holders and it is wrong to kill humans. It is wrong to have an abortion (i. e. to kill a human being). And yet not hold the conclusion in that it doesn"t yield the conclusion that you thought it did. She clari es premise 2 i. e. it is wrong to kill human beings by exploring when exactly is killing prohibited (and why) and what is the right to life. She then rejects the inference to the conclusion. The intention is not to kill the fetus, but to remove it from a place that it is not supposed to be. This is a different case than a homicide or murder.
