PHL 509 Study Guide - Final Guide: Organ Transplantation, Bioethics, Fetus

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Philosophy
• Course: PHL 509
• Professor: Thomas Bradley Richards

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The moral significance of birth: marry anne warren. Fetuses are not newborn children because they lack the social relationships and existence that newborn children have. If we consider fetuses as legal entities that have rights, that would limit women"s private and public life will ignore their right to autonomy. Abortion, quasi-rights of fetus versus legal rights of the mother. The connection is that women prefer a guide to know when something is moral or not. Something neutral to cover all grounds of abortion. Pragmatic account: first order reasons versus second order reasons (rape versus vacation) The only biological difference is the physical separation of the fetus from the mother. Abortion through a feminist ethics lens susan sherwin. Ignoring (and thereby obscuring) relevant connections to other social practices that oppress women . Feminists seek to couch their arguments in moral concepts that support their general campaign of overcoming injustice in all its dimension.