Philosophy 1305F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Self-Awareness, Circular Reasoning, Begging The Question

• School: Western University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: Philosophy 1305F/G
• Professor: Dean Proessel

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Fetus needs to be included under the category of personhood. The fetus"s rights are trumped by the mothers rights. The fetus is excluded under the category of personhood. Noonan: if you are conceived by human parents, you are human . There is a genetic point in his argument. You receive the genetic code at conception. At conception the fetus is a person. Abortion is wrong from the moment of conception. A fetus has a particular form of being genetic makeup, human because its genetics. Sentiment of adults adults don"t have the same sort of emotions for the fetus as they do for a child out of the womb (weak argument to rely on the sentiments) Don"t rely on peoples sentiments for the argument of abortion. It is wrong given that a fetus is important to violate a fetus"s rights: serious conservatives won"t allow abortion in the cases of threatening the mothers life (let nature take its course) extremists.