PHI 2396 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Surrogacy, Moral Agency, Artificial Insemination
21 Sep 2014
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Summary of callahan"s criticism against the who definition of health (p. 32): health is only a part of life, the role of medicine in our lives is important but limited, we should resist the tendency to place all criminal, deviant and harmful behavior under the notion of sickness", thus setting those who exhibit such a behavior free of responsibility, medicine does not and should not have a normative power (medicine is not morality except in limited cases of epidemics and plagues), we should keep the roles and responsibilities of different professions separate and clear. Abortion is killing a human bring, therefore we have to ban abortion unless it"s therapeutic (therapeutic abortion: abortion which is recommended because life or health of mother is seriously harmed by pregnancy): argument #1: (anti abortion) they have to be held responsible for bringing the human babies to life and safety, argument #2: (anti abortion) behaviour in pregnant women.
