PHLB07H3 Study Guide - Final Guide: Argument From Analogy, Individualism, Carpe Diem
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Marquis why abortion is immoral": critique of standard pro-life and pro-choice arguments. Giving argument for the immorality of abortion. Goldilocks = too broad or narrow: articulation and defense of the future-deprivation argument. Explain why it is prima facie wrong to kill adult human beings and then extend this argument to fetuses. Wrong b/c it deprives them of a future of engaging in value. Anything can engage in a future of value (adults) and fetuses as well: objections to marquis. Wants to avoid these kinds of objection. Fetus is an identifiable subject, not a sperm and an egg. Thomson a defense of abortion": even if we grant the fetus a right to life, this does not entail that it is never permissible to kill a fetus, coerced conception and the plugged-in violinist example. Permissible to abort in cases of coerced conception. Henry fonda, the burglar, and the people seeds. Whether abortion is permissible when you conceive willingly.
