PHIL 4 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Fetus, Zygote
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. george the chemist: it is obvious that george should take the job in a lab making chemical weapons, jim in the amazon. According to au it is obvious that jim should kill one to save the nineteen (he has to kill. Williams thinks au overlooks the importance that integrity plays, and should play, in. It is not the mathematical obviousness of au"s answers, but the kind of moral. As human beings, we engage in various projects, and that our commitment to these. Conservative view (pro-life): abortion is usually seriously morally wrong from conception: sometimes exceptions are made for: rape, mother"s life in danger, incest, common assumptions. Fetus is a person from the moment of conception. A right to life (zygote/fetus) outweighs any right to choose of the mother. Liberal view of abortion: liberal view (pro-choice): all abortions in the first few trimesters (at least) are morally permissible. The fetus is not a person until quite late in pregnancy.
