RELIGST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Abortion Debate, Fetus

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On the moral and legal status of abortion warren. *see end of document for information concerning assignment and final exam. Don marquis: side steps the question of personhood and whether fetuses are persons by arguing that what makes abortion morally wrong (in most cases) is that it deprives the fetus of a valuable future". Judith jarvis thomson: grants that fetuses are persons and do have a right to life. But having a right to life does not necessarily mean one has a right not to be killed: taking on anti-abortion arguments head-on. Don marquis: ignores the mother; what sort of loss is the loss of a future? (surely not like losing one"s phone or car keys. : ambiguous when talking about "loss" Judith jarvis thomson: her arguments only work well for some cases (rape, failed contraception). It gets a bit murky once we consider a simply undesired pregnancy: what about for unwanted pregnancy.

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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.

True

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.

True

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

RELIGST 2C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 16: Judith Jarvis Thomson, Abortion Debate, Fetus

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