PHIL 361 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Aborted, Fetus, Eugenics
10 Aug 2019
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The following is a list of articles that may be included on the exam: Purdy , genetics and reproductive risk: can having children be immoral? . Harris , is gene therapy a form of eugenics? . The fetus is a person from conception so killing it would take away its right to life. You wake up kidnapped and plugged up to a violinist that needs your kidneys for nine months or he will die. This shows how, in rape cases, the violinist/the fetus does not have a right to use your body for continued existence. Right to life does not equal right to means of life. Does the right to decide what happens to your outweigh the right to life or someone else: one could respond to the case of the violinist by making an exception for cases of rape. They could say abortion is always wrong except in cases of rape.
