PHL 304 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Begging The Question, Fetus
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Liberal argument: people are going to have abortions anyways so giving her the choice will protect the woman from a bad abortion. It is wrong to kill an innocent human being. Thus, it is wrong to kill a fetus. Her attack: the argument commits the fallacy of ambiguity or is question begging (circularity) Meaning the fetus is not classified as an innocent human being since its not morally a person. Uses different meanings for ihb; assumes what is trying to be proved. There are two different senses of innocent human being: biologically human and being a perhson. If a is a person and b is not, and b is a burden to a, then a may (morally) do to b whatever is necessary to relieve the burden.
