PHI 2398 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Abortion Clinic, Therapeutic Abortion, Otology
18 Feb 2017
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The truth is more important than being offensive. But there is no single truth in bioethics -- differs culture to culture, person to person, etc. If someone claimed to know absolute right and wrong, they"d be authoritarian. Need to define it in order to say if abortion is taking a life. Status of life = otological question -- study of being/existence ( ontos. A form of life (cells), but is it human. Abortion decriminalized in can, 1967 -- jewish dr. morgentaler, testified before house. ) -- what is the status of commons. Based on harm resulting from illegal and self-inflicted abortions. Utilitarianism influence: there will be less harm if it"s legalized. Hospital committee must approve of abortion -- gatekeeper (clinic can"t be private) 1969 private abortion clinic (violated law, but, acquitted -- after being tried again in 1973, after 5k abortions) -- opened more in the 80s in winnipeg and toronto.
