PHL281H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Eudaimonia, Fetus, Bioethics
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Suggest that its not rights we should focus on in the abortion issue. The answer may lie in sancity of life. The arguments about a personhood and rights of a fetus are irrelevant because an early term fetus can"t have rights because it has not interests. If exceptions of abortion are given to people who were raped and in cases where mothers life is threatened. (acceptance of thomson) No one treats the early term fetus as a person. No one treats the death of early term fetus as trivial. Death is a shame, but not equally a shame. The amount of investment made in the human life and how much of it is redeemed gives the impact of the loss of the life. Though we can evaluate how they lived it, while respecting it as irreplaceable: ex: mother theresa, satlin, einstein etc: what are the values dworkin describes to bring out his point, subjective: reflects a person"s desires and perferences.
