PHL 606 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Absolution, Protoplasm, Fetus
25 Oct 2017
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Pro-choice advocates developed a language to assert that the fetus is not a person. Refer to the fetus (well into the fourth month) as material . Pregnant woman is in fact both a person in her body and a vessel. Rather than seeing the two beings as alive and interdependent, the woman must sometimes choose her own life over the fetus". Some feminists developed a rhetoric that defined the unwanted fetus as as best. Valueless , at worst a mass of dependent protoplasm . Pro-life warning about the potential widespread of abortion to degrade reverence for life. Devaluing babies as people and rather as products with a value dictated by a market economy. Imagery from pro-life advocates is seen as revolting propaganda to pro-choicers. Four month old fetus responds to stimulus. Wanted babies are charming, complex; unwanted ones are just uterine material . All abortions occupy a spectrum from lack of alternatives to full moral accountability.
