Health Sciences 2200A/B Study Guide - Final Guide: Negative And Positive Rights, Infant, Fetus

• School: Western University
• Department: Health Sciences
• Course: Health Sciences 2200A/B
• Professor: Jeannie Samuel

Document Summary

Roe vs. wade supreme court recognized a right of women to end pregnancies free from state restrictions if before the point of fetus viability. This is based on the idea that a fetus is not a person before it is viable. In common law practice in canada a fetus is only treated with the same rights as a person when born alive, giving women more freedom. Assisted pregnancy creates new issues lesley brown the first women to have in vitro fertilization egg taken and fertilized in dish then planted in the moms uterus. Case of baby m case of surrgogate pregnancy. There are different types of parents, genetic, gestational, and social. Conservatives - opponents of abortion claim that moral status exists from the time of conception and deserves full person rights. Moderates - claim that the fetus does not have moral status until it is viable, or until it can feel pleasure and pain.