Philosophy 2715F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Abortion Debate, Fetus, Dementia
18 Apr 2019
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Argues that killing fetuses is in the same category as killing adult human beings and is seriously morally wrong. Abortion debate is fuelled by unsustainable positions on both sides. Argue that moral status is conferred by possessing a genetic code that is necessary and suf cient for being human. Told that it is wrong to take any human life. As a moral principle of the wrongness of killing (too broad) marquis does not believe that the wrongness of killing is too broad (ie. scratch your arm kills the skin cell) Argue that moral status is conferred by rationality. Hold that it is only wrong to kill persons who possess rationality. Marquis believes this to be a too narrow a moral principle of the wrongness of killing (ie. people with dementia or vegetative state have no capability for rational thought) Marquis says in order to make an opinion, what makes it wrong to kill something needs to be outlined.
