PHLA11H3 Lecture Notes - Cell Culture, Judith Jarvis Thomson, Fetus
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Don marquis and judith jarvis thomson agree. Debate does not come down the questions. Even if it is not a question still wrong to kill it (presumptively, prima facie) Even if it is a person, it is permissible to abort it at a certain point. Pro-choicers the fetus is not a person it has no personhood it has no rationality it has no self-consciousness. Babies do not have rationality or self-consciousness. Biologically, human principle fetus is biologically human, therefore it has a right to life. Poor way to continue the debate the fetus is human and alive, but it"s unclear if it"s human. Second argument loss of future equates suffering implies that killing anyone with a future like ours is wrong. 1. it"s wrong to kill things that are not human. 2. euthanasia is (or not) morally permissible. 3. babies and children potentially have similar futures. Not true that the fetus" future would be valuable to it.
