FYS 043 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Philosophical Perspectives, Egg Cell

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Non-personhood grounds for examining the moral permissibility of abortion. Abortion is seriously immoral except in very rare cases because killing, except in rare cases, is morally wrong. Killing is morally wrong because it deprives the victim of a future like ours. Fetuses have a future like ours, so abortion is seriously immoral. Sperm and ova do not have a future like ours, so this analysis does not apply to contraception. Must already possess a future like ours; must have a personal future- fetuses don"t have a future like ours- fetuses don"t have the same connection to a personal future like developped humans do. Fetuses are not persons- they don"t have the relevant characteristics of a person. Morally relevant characteristics- conceptually based emotions-feeling states which can be experienced only if one is capable of understanding a variety of quite abstract concepts ex: moral guilt, regret, hope, pride.

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QUESTION 1

One of the strengths of Virtue Ethics is that it provides us with explicit guidance in deciding how to act in particular circumstances.

True

False

QUESTION 2

More than one answer may be correct. (Hint: More than one of these is correct!) The Doctrine (Principle) of Double Effect allows the moral permissibility of:

A.		A mother aborting a pregnancy that was the result of a rape.
B.		A doctor performing a life-saving surgery on a pregnant woman where the intent is to save the life of the mother but the death of the fetus is a foreseen consequence of the procedure.
C.		A woman wantonly getting pregnant so she can get an abortion to make a political statement.
D.		A doctor injecting a terminally ill patient with morphine where the intent is to relieve the patient's pain but a foreseen consequence is hastening the patient's death.

QUESTION 3

Nonmaleficence requires that the physician not subject her patient to any risks at all.

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False

QUESTION 4

A patient is unable to exercise full autonomy if her physician only tells her about one of several treatment options for her condition.

True

False

QUESTION 5

Mary Anne Warren endorses a distinction between what is genetically human and what is morally human.

True

False

QUESTION 6

Don Marquis argues that the wrongness of killing adult human beings (as well as human fetuses) is primarily due to the fact that killing deprives the victim of a valuable future.

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False

QUESTION 7

Dax Cowart now believes his doctors were right to continue his life-saving treatment in spite of his requests for them to let him die.

True

False

QUESTION 8

Assigning degrees of urgency to patients wounded in a disaster (triage) and distributing limited medical resources based on who needs them most is a practice best supported by which ethical theory?

A.		Kantian Ethics
B.		Utilitarianism
C.		Care Ethics
D.		Natural Law Theory

QUESTION 9

Rule Utilitarianism holds that the principle of utility should be applied on a case-by-case basis, to particular acts in particular circumstances.

True

False

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