PHILOS 2D03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Moral Agency, Thought Experiment, Abortion Debate
27 Feb 2017
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Marquis begins his article by giving a brief overview of the 2 most popular ways of thinking/arguing about abortion. He also attempts to show that thinking about abortion either of these 2 ways is deeply problematic, and will not allow us to resolve the issue. 1) classic pro-life arguments: fetus is an innocent human beings, it is wrong to killing innocent human beings, therefore it is wrong to kill a fetus. Traditional debate is predicated on whether or not the fetus is a human. Neither of the following arguments will ever arrive at a satisfactory conclusion, as both rest on an assertion about the status of the fetus that cannot be proven without question. According to marquis, there is not one moment that a fetus goes from being cells to a human. It"s like going bald: you don"t just turn bald it happens over time.
