PHLB09H3 Lecture Notes - Fetus
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As soon as we declare a fetus a human being: moral permissibility falls out. Some constraints exist on what people can do to you. Assuming the fetus has a right to life that is equal to anyone else. Stuck in a hospital bed: someone is attached to our kidneys. I am the only person with the right kidneys for the violinist. I have a right to my life/body, but the violinist has a right to live. For sake of comparison to pregnancy, let"s assume 9 months. No one denies we have a right to decide what to do with our body. The argument is that whether or not this right outweighs the right of fetus. All fetuses have a right to life: including those conceived by rape and those by consensual sex. Would even go so far as to claim that even if mother"s life is at risk, still do not have a right to abort.
