PHIL 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Fetus

• School: University of San Diego
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHIL 110
• Professor: Colanter

Document Summary

To say that the unborn entity is part of her mother is to claim that the mother possesses four legs, two heads, two noses, and with the case of a male fetus, a penis, and two testicles. [when] one converts the odds into percentages if the mortality of childbirth is 9 per 100,000, then a woman has a 99. 991 percent chance of surviving. But the statistical difference between 99. 991 percent and. Beckwith thinks that there are nine problems with thomson"s famous violinist. Beckwith argues that there are special obligations between parents and the child that resulted from the parents" act of sexual intercourse. And that this obligation is necessary in any civilized culture in order to preserve the rights of the vulnerable, the weak, the young . A case can be made that the unborn does have a prima facie right to her mother"s body. The unborn is naturally dependent to her mother (unlike the violinist)